Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 346: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of third level education graduates currently on the live register. [21383/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The number of third level graduates currently on the live register cannot currently be provided; my Department has recently started to collect educational attainment for live register customers in the context of calculating their "Probability of Exit" for activation purposes. This is being extended to local offices over the coming year but is currently done in nine offices for new live register customers and thus the information is not widely available. Occupation details are collected for all live register customers and this is the closest available proxy for educational attainment. As of the end of March there were 434,054 people on the live register, I have included a breakdown by occupation grouping of this number for your information.