Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of self-employed persons here. [25259/20]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household survey which provides quarterly statistics on employment and unemployment and is the official source of labour market estimates in the State. The primary classification used for the LFS results is the ILO (International Labour Organisation) labour force classification.

The most recent figures on the number of self-employed persons available from the LFS are for Quarter 2 (Q2) 2020.

The information requested by the Deputy is published on a quarterly basis by the Central Statistics Office in Table 5 of the LFS release.

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The information can also be extracted from CSO's online database StatBank.

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Table 1 below shows the number of self-employed persons aged 15 years and over classified by gender in the State.

Self employed persons aged 15 years and over classified by gender, Q2 2020

Source: Labour Force Survey, Central Statistics Office.

Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Data may be subject to future revision.

Reference period: q2=Apr - Jun.

Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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106. To ask the Taoiseach the number of sole-traders here.. [25260/20]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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In the CSO's statistics on Business Demography for 2018, there were 136,712 enterprises classified as Individual Proprietorships, out of a total of 270,344 enterprises. This classification is based on the legal form of the business, as distinct from the number of persons engaged. Businesses classified as Individual Proprietorship had a total of 204,555 persons engaged in 2018.

The above figures relate to the private business economy which comprises the Industry, Construction, Distribution, Financial and Services sectors (NACE Rev 2 codes B to N, excluding code 64.20 “Activities of Holding Companies”) as classified by the CSO.