Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Jasmina Behan:

I might come in. The census provides us with a lot of information, in terms of questions in variables that are there, that we need for modelling. The issue is that the census is every five years and a lot of the data for modelling in terms of demographics we need every year. Those are typically done as estimates using the labour force survey. It would be great if we had a census every year but, of course, we cannot have it every year. It is not so much what is in the census in terms of questions; it is that the census is every five years. For us to do demographic modelling, that level of frequency causes issues and we have make estimates, as I said, using the labour force survey.

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