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All Ireland Traveller Health Study
Estimated Traveller Population
The Travellers count was based on the number of Traveller families enumerated at the census multiplied
by the average family size. Further details on the rationale for the process and demographics are
included in Technical Report 2. In ROI census, project coordinators returned field reports of anonymised
family codes with a comment on each code, indicating the status of the family, whether interviewed
or not interviewed (because they moved, refused or were unavailable). In addition, on completion
of the census fieldwork, each project completed a telephone interview confirming the numbers of
families enumerated, response rate and number of files uploaded. The field report, the interview and
the uploaded files were used to corroborate the total family count in each project. To avoid double
counting, during the 6-week census period those who had moved out of the island of Ireland were not
enumerated as part of the study population and those who moved within the Island were enumerated
in the area to which they moved. The number who moved away was subtracted from the count in each
project area, and project area counts were then aggregated to reach the final Traveller count.
In the NI census, the total number of families enumerated was reported by the central field coordinator
in NI.
In ROI and NI, average family size was obtained from the question: ‘How many Traveller family members
(including yourself ) normally live with you?’
Table 5: Estimated Traveller Population
ROI NI Total
Number of Traveller families enumerated 9,056 1,562 10,618
Number of Traveller families interviewed 7,042 1,450 8,492
Response rates (%) 78% 93% 80%
Average family size 4.0 2.5 3.8
Estimated Traveller population 36,224 3,905 40,129
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