Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 112: To ask the Taoiseach when the Central Statistics Office will publish new Irish Life Tables, in view of the fact that it is now nearly four years since Irish Life Tables 14 were published in June 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12937/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Irish Life Tables are calculated and published at least 2 years after each census year. For example, Irish Life Tables 14 were published in 2004, 2 years after the 2002 census. The Central Statistics Office intends to publish Irish Life Tables 15 in 2008, 2 years after the 2006 census.

Irish Life Tables are calculated based on population data from the census, and 3 years mortality data centred on the census year. Thus, Irish Life Tables 15 will be based on population data from the 2006 census, and mortality data from the years 2005, 2006, and 2007. This is why the Irish Life Tables 15 could not have been published before 2008.