This may help you complete the Synod survey
Some information from the 2011 Census (in the Republic of Ireland) may help as background information for the Synod survey. You could see whether you can estimate whether your local parish or area reflects the same percentages.
Perhaps someone can provide data also for Northern Ireland.
|
All private households |
Households |
% |
Persons |
% |
| All private households |
1,654,208 |
4,510,409 |
||
| One person |
392,000 |
23.7% |
392,000 |
8.69% |
| Husband and wife |
240,146 |
14.52% |
480,292 |
10.65% |
| Cohabiting couple |
73,111 |
4.42% |
146,222 |
3.24% |
| Husband and wife with children |
522,959 |
31.61% |
2,147,067 |
47.6% |
| Cohabiting couple with children |
54,911 |
3.32% |
206,327 |
4.57% |
| Lone mother with children |
155,264 |
9.39% |
420,011 |
9.31% |
| Lone father with children |
24,497 |
1.48% |
62,014 |
1.37% |
| Husband and wife with other persons |
13,095 |
0.79% |
43,209 |
0.96% |
| Husband and wife with children and other persons |
26,226 |
1.59% |
136,077 |
3.02% |
| Cohabiting couple with other persons |
8,602 |
0.52% |
29,551 |
0.66% |
| Cohabiting couple with children and other persons |
4,233 |
0.26% |
20,437 |
0.45% |
| Lone mother with children and other persons |
15,190 |
0.92% |
56,134 |
1.24% |
| Lone father with children and other persons |
2,986 |
0.18% |
10,885 |
0.24% |
| Two family units with/without other persons |
18,317 |
1.11% |
97,384 |
2.16% |
| Three or more family units with/without other persons |
452 |
0.03% |
3,554 |
0.08% |
| Non-family households containing related persons |
39,611 |
2.39% |
92,664 |
2.05% |
| Households comprised of unrelated persons only |
62,608 |
3.78% |
166,581 |
3.69% |
|
Totals: |
1,654,208 |
100.01% |
4,510,409 |
99.98% |
Same-sex couples in Ireland:
There were 4,042 same-sex couples living together: This makes 8084 persons: 2,321 male couples and 1,721 female.
This is 0.34% of the 1.18 million families.
230 were couples with children, with the vast majority of these being female couples.
Most same-sex couples were cohabiting (3,876) but 166 indicated that they were married couples.
Since same-sex civil unions had only recently been introduced in Ireland at the time of the census, it is likely that most of these were married abroad.
Census Reports are available at http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/.
Padraig McCarthy