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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 May 2012

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Ceisteanna (281)

Peadar Tóibín

Ceist:

346 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of third level education graduates currently on the live register. [21383/12]

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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.

Total

Percentage Occupation

Managers and administrators

16,836

3.9%

Professional

23,057

5.3%

Associate professional and technical

12,210

2.8%

Clerical and secretarial

40,977

9.4%

Craft and related

104,946

24.2%

Personal and protective service

51,931

12.0%

Sales

46,610

10.7%

Plant and machine operatives

70,440

16.2%

Other occupation

49,104

11.3%

No occupation

17,943

4.1%

Total

434,054

100.0%

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