Housing was seen as the most important issue facing the Republic of Ireland as of 2025, with 64 percent of respondents placing it as one of the top two issues facing the country. Housing was followed by rising prices and inflation as the second most important issue, selected as a top issue by 35 percent of Irish respondents.

Housing was seen as the most important issue facing the Republic of Ireland as of 2023, with 56 percent of respondents placing it as one of the top two issues facing the country. Housing was followed by rising prices and inflation as the second most important issue, selected as a top issue by 55 percent of Irish respondents.

Graph and download economic data for Net Issues of International Debt Securities for Issuers in General Government Sector, All Maturities, Nationality of Issuer in Ireland (DISCONTINUED) (IDSGGGAMNINIIE) from Q3 1993 to Q2 2015 about Ireland, issues, sector, maturity, debt, securities, Net, and government.

A survey conducted in October 2024 highlighted that the budget and government spending was the main issue getting the attention of people in the Republic of Ireland at ** percent of respondents. This was followed by housing at ** percent of people, which was the issue getting the most attention in September. In that month, the joint-second issue was that of a bike shelter built in the grounds of the Irish Parliament, and the high costs associated with constructing it.

International debt issues to GDP (%) in Ireland was reported at 84.31 % in 2020, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Ireland - International debt issues to GDP - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Outstanding Total International Debt Securities to GDP for Ireland (DDDM07IEA156NWDB) from 1980 to 2020 about Ireland, issues, debt, and GDP.

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996. NILT is run by ARK (Northern Ireland's social policy hub), which is an initiative within Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University.

The main aims of the NILT series are:

to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;

to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;

to facilitate academic social policy analysis;

to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland.

NILT is one of a suite of annual public attitudes surveys run by ARK. This includes the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT) of 16 year olds which began in 2003, and the Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) which began in 2008.

Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues. NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several open access teaching datasets were created by ARK from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia.

Further information about the series may be found on the ARK NILT webpage (www.ark.ac.uk/nilt)

NILT 2023

From 1998 to 2000, NILT surveys were undertaken as a face-to-face interview, followed by a short self-completion questionnaire. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey has since been undertaken online. Respondents could also request to complete the survey via a phone interview if they desired.

This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is Religion and the Northern Ireland problem. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

This dataset arises from the survey work undertaken by four closely co-ordinated projects, which were part of the Devolution and Constitutional Change research programme of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The principal aim of the projects was to establish whether initial reactions to the introduction of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland enhanced (or otherwise) the legitimacy of the United Kingdom and the new institutions themselves.

More specifically the projects aimed to find answers to the following questions:

• Did the introduction of devolution change the distribution of national identity?
• Did support for the UK political system rise or fall?
• Were patterns similar or different across the four territories?
• Can any changes that have occurred in national identity and so on be attributed to devolution or to other processes such as generational change?

There were in addition a number of country-specific issues, for example, support for regional government in England. The objective of the survey research was to provide a firm empirical basis on which to study these questions.

This dataset is derived from several existing sources:

• British Social Attitudes Surveys, 2001 and 2003, produced by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
• Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys, 2001 and 2003, produced by NatCen and the Scottish Centre for Social Research
• Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Election Study), 2001 (held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 4546), and Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003, (SN 5052), which were produced by the universities of Wales (Aberystwyth) and Oxford, and NatCen
• Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2001 and 2003, produced by the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK)

The copyright of the data taken from these surveys rests with the original producers (see copyright statement below).

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in Northern Ireland by day-to-day activates limited by a health problem or disability, and by broad age bands. The estimates are as at census day, 21 March 2021.

The census collected information on the usually resident population of Northern Ireland on census day (21 March 2021). Initial contact letters or questionnaire packs were delivered to every household and communal establishment, and residents were asked to complete online or return the questionnaire with information as correct on census day. Special arrangements were made to enumerate special groups such as students, members of the Travellers Community, HM Forces personnel etc. The Census Coverage Survey (an independent doorstep survey) followed between 12 May and 29 June 2021 and was used to adjust the census counts for under-enumeration.

This spreadsheet contains 3 worksheets: a cover sheet; 1 sheet containing the data tables; and a notes sheet.

Data are available for Northern Ireland and the 11 Local Government Districts.

Graph and download economic data for Announced Issues of International Bonds and Notes for All Issuers, Nationality of Issuer in Ireland (DISCONTINUED) (IBANAINIAIIE) from Q1 1971 to Q2 2015 about Ireland, issues, notes, and bonds.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Northern Ireland Social Attitudes and Life and Times Combined Dataset, 1989-2004 is a derived dataset providing information on social attitudes in Northern Ireland, focusing mainly on community relations and political issues, and allowing analysis across time. It pools data from the following four sources: Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Surveys, 1989-1996 (NISA) (held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33235. This series finished in 1996.)Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) (held at the Archive under GN 33312. This dataset uses data from the 1998-2009 surveys, but the NILT series is still ongoing.)Northern Ireland Referendum and Election Study, 1998 (held under SN 5442)Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study, 2003 (held under SN 5394)Further information about the combined dataset, including some tables of results and links to other surveys not held at the Archive are available on the ARK Surveys Online (SOL) Community Relations and Political Attitudes, 1989-2009 web pages. No specific documentation exists for this dataset. Users are advised to consult the original documentation for the NISA and NILT series, and to check the ARK web pages linked above. The first edition of this study contained data from 1989-2004. For the second edition (August 2010), data from 2005-2009 have been added. Main Topics: Topics covered include social, political and religious issues and attitudes, associated discrimination and inequality, community relations, and demographic details. Multi-stage stratified random sample Compilation or synthesis of existing material Original surveys used face-to-face interviews and self-completion questionnaires

This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is The Irish problem and ourselves. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.The main aims of the NILT series are: to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland; to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas; to facilitate academic social policy analysis; to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland. NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.NILT also forms part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several open access teaching datasets were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia. Further information about the series may be found on the ARK NILT webpage. Main Topics: The 2005 NILT survey covered: gender and family rolescomplementary medicine and health issuesdemocratic participationpolitical attitudesattitudes to ethnic minority peoplecommunity relationsbackground information on respondents

Ireland IE: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data was reported at 9.000 Person in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.000 Person for 2014. Ireland IE: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data is updated yearly, averaging 7.000 Person from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2015, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 21.000 Person in 2005 and a record low of 1.000 Person in 1997. Ireland IE: Refugee Population: by Country or Territory of Origin data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded. Palestinian refugees are people (and their descendants) whose residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Country of origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.; ; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistics Database, Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html.; Sum;

Creating our Future was a Government of Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland initiative that ‘provided an opportunity for everyone in Ireland to give ideas on how to make our country better for all’ by allowing the public to submit research ideas that might ‘inspire researchers to make a better future for Ireland.’

Subtitled ‘a national conversation on research in Ireland’, Creating our Future received 18,062 online submissions (Jul-Nov 2021). All submissions were published in a searchable database in August 2022, alongside authors’ stated age ranges and counties of residence (when provided). A thematic category (e.g. ‘Politics and Policymaking’, ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, ‘Health and Social Care’, ‘Digital World’, etc.) was also assigned to each submission after ‘expert analysis was complete to facilitate public use’ (see ‘Information on Submissions’ here).

Funded by the National Open Research Forum (which itself was funded by the Higher Education Authority), partners and research assistants from the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership used the secondary dataset from Creating our Future to create a subset of data including 245 submissions which related to crime or criminal justice issues. Details about the process and ideas for the analysis of this dataset can be found on the website of the European Network for Open Criminology (link to be added shortly).

Diversity’s effect on violence is ambiguous. Some studies find that diverse areas experience more violence; others find the opposite. Yet conflict displaces and intimidates people, creating measurement challenges. We propose a novel indicator of diversity that circumvents these problems: the location of physical structures at disaggregated geographical levels. We introduce this solution in the context of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Our data reveal a curvilinear relationship between diversity and conflict-related deaths, with the steepest increase at low diversity, driven by an increase in violence when our proxy for the Catholic proportion of the population rises from zero to twenty percent. These patterns are consistent with a theory of group threat through exposure.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.The main aims of the NILT series are: to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland; to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas; to facilitate academic social policy analysis; to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland. NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.NILT also forms part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several open access teaching datasets were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia. Further information about the series may be found on the ARK NILT webpage. Main Topics: The 2012 NILT survey covered:autismcommunity relationslesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issuesattitudes to minority ethnic people, asylum seekers and migrant workerspolitical attitudesbackground information on the respondents

As of 2024, 31 percent of respondents in Ireland aged 65 years and above reported they were somewhat limited in daily life by a long standing illness or health problem. Furthermore, around seven percent of people in this age group were severely limited by a health condition. The prevalence of limiting health conditions were more common as age increased.