Student Grant Numbers

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Ceisteanna (127, 128)

Charlie McConalogue

Ceist:

127. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons from a farming background currently in receipt of a student maintenance grant. [45552/12]

Amharc ar fhreagra

128. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons from a self employed background currently in receipt of a student maintenance grant. [45553/12]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Education and Skills

I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 128 together.

The table following shows the number of new awards made to students in higher education from the different socio-economic categories including farming and self employed for the academic year 2011/2012. This indicative data is subject to considerable qualification for interpretation purposes in relation to the reliability due to, inter alia, the level of undeclared status among the returns from the awarding authorities and the provision of accurate and or/adequate information in respect of occupation by the principal earner to enable the awarding authorities to classify them by socio-economic background. The information contained in the table has been supplied to my Department by the awarding authorities who submitted a return.

Total

Employers

Managers

Higher Profess-

ional

Lower Profess-

ional

Non-

Manual

Manual Skilled

Semi-

Skilled

Unskilled

Own Account Workers

Farmers

Agricultural Workers

All Others gainfully occupied

unknown

2.53%

2.02%

11.12%

13.84%

9.73%

5.37%

7.19%

8.41%

5.00%

0.52%

34.27%

100.00%