Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2015.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 445/2015
• Year: 2015

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 20th October, 2015.

I, PAUL KEHOE, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 (1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and the Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 157 of 2011 ), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2015.

2. In this Order—

“census night” means the period of time commencing at 9 p.m. on 24 April 2016 and ending at 7 a.m. on 25 April 2016;

“following morning” means the period of time commencing at 7 a.m. on 25 April 2016 and ending at noon on that day.

3. Information required to be provided by this Order, the general nature of which is specified in Schedule 1—

(a) is prescribed as information required for the purposes of the Census of Population to be conducted in the year 2016, and

(b) shall be provided in respect of the circumstances existing on census night or on the following morning, unless otherwise stated.

4. Subject to Article 5, the persons or classes of persons specified in Schedule 2 are prescribed as the persons or classes of persons by whom the information referred to in Article 3 is required to be provided, which information shall be provided by the completion of forms and questionnaires prepared by the Director General of the Central Statistics Office in accordance with section 23 of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993).

5. (1) A person to whom paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide—

(a) in respect of a private household that is occupied by such person on census night or on the following morning, he or she not having been enumerated elsewhere on that night or morning, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1,

(b) in respect of each person who is alive and in the State at 12 midnight on Sunday 24 April 2016 and who occupies that private household on census night or on the following morning, such person or persons not having been enumerated elsewhere, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1,

(c) information as to whether any or all members of the private household were temporarily absent from the household on census night and the following morning and, where all members of the private household were so absent, in respect of each member of the household who was so absent, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, and

(d) where some but not all members of the private household are temporarily absent from the private household on census night and the following morning, in respect of each person who is so absent, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1.

(2) A person to whom paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1.

(3) A person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1, in respect of himself or herself.

SCHEDULE 1

General nature of information to be provided for purposes of Census of Population to be conducted in year 2016

1. In respect of housing characteristics and facilities of a private household:

(a) type of accommodation;

(b) age of building;

(c) whether accommodation is owned or rented;

(d) in the case of rented accommodation, amount of rent paid;

(e) number of rooms;

(f) type of fuel used by central heating;

(g) type of water supply;

(h) type of sewerage facilities;

(i) number of cars and vans;

(j) possession of a personal computer;

(k) access to the internet.

2. In respect of each person referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) and (3) of Article 5:

(a) first name, surname and sex;

(b) date of birth;

(c) place of birth;

(d) current usual residence;

(e) usual residence on 24 April 2016;

(f) whether such person has lived outside the State for a period of...