State of the Nation's Children

The State of the Nation’s Children report provides a description of child well-being in Ireland. It brings together information from administrative, survey and census data. The report is arranged around four broad categories, these are socio-demographics, children’s relationships, children’s outcomes, formal and informal supports. The Research and Evaluation Unit within the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth (DCEDIY) prepares this publication, with input provided by a variety of data providers. The following sources are used to compile this report:

 Central Statistics Office: Census of the Population;  Central Statistics Office: Vital Statistics;  Central Statistics Office: European Union Survey of Income and Living conditions (EU-SILC);  Department of Children and Youth Affairs: ECCE Database (Programmes Implementation Platform)  Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Summary of Social Housing Assessments  Department of Justice and Equality: Annual Report of the Committee Appointed to Monitor the Effectiveness of the Diversion Programme (An Garda Síochána);  Educational Research Centre: Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Survey;  Healthcare Pricing Office: National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS);  Healthcare Pricing Office: Hospital In-Patient Enquiry System  Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway: Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children (HBSC) Survey;  Health Prot

Purpose: To chart the well-being of children in Ireland, track changes over time, benchmark progress in Ireland relative to other countries and highlight policy issues arising. Included are data relating to all children aged 0-17 years resident in Ireland, as well as various international comparisons of this cohort. A small number of indicators include young adults 18-24 years.

Coverage: National - children aged 0-17 years.

Data presented range from the year 2000, in the first version, to 2021, in the most recent version.