Written answers

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Department of Finance

Tobacco Control Measures

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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38. To ask the Minister for Finance the margins of error with regard to the Ipsos MRBI annual cigarette consumption surveys; and if the same margin applies in each of the past four years. [30429/14]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the margins of error in the surveys of smokers that Ipsos MRBI carried out, for them and for the National Tobacco Control Office of the Health Services Executive, in the years in question are as set out in the following table.

YearMargin of Error
2013+/- 2.4%
2012+/- 2.5%
2011+/- 2.6%
2010+/- 2.7%

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