Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 July 2014
38. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked 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]
Amharc ar fhreagraI 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.
|
Year |
Margin of Error |
|
2013 |
+/- 2.4% |
|
2012 |
+/- 2.5% |
|
2011 |
+/- 2.6% |
|
2010 |
+/- 2.7% |
