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All Ireland Traveller Health Study Definition of Travellers The Equal Status Act (Government of Ireland, 2002) defines the Traveller Community as follows: ‘Traveller community means the community of people who are commonly called Travellers and who are identified (both by themselves and others) as people with a shared history, culture and traditions, including historically, a nomadic way of life on the island of Ireland.’. This is the same definition as used by the Race Relations Order in Northern Ireland. For the purposes of this study, only Travellers who self-identified as members of the Travelling community were included. 48
Health Survey Findings Mapping and Scoping Exercise The main purpose of the mapping process was to identify all Irish Traveller families on the island, so they could be offered the opportunity to participate in the study. Objectives of the Mapping Exercise • To identify the number and location of Travellers/Traveller families by project and region. • To develop and maintain a comprehensive database of Traveller and HSE study coordinators. • To identify Traveller Peer Researchers for training. • To assess level of coverage of Traveller families in the country by study coordinators and Peer Researchers and to identify gaps at local and regional level. • To estimate the number of computers required for each project/region based on the number of Traveller families/number of Peer Researchers/number of coordinators and size of area to be covered. Laptop computers were used for data collection. • To determine the capacity and challenges locally and regionally to facilitate the implementation of the study. Rationale for the Mapping and Enumeration Process The number of Travellers in the National census (Central Statistics Office, 2003a) is accepted to be under-reported (Kobayashi, 2005), so the study team required another process to identify and enumerate all the Traveller families in Ireland. The first stage in determining the study population of Irish Travellers was to build on the process already commenced by Pavee Point via the National Traveller Health Network and the Traveller CDP network. This process had commenced in 2005-2006, when the understanding was that the Department of Health and Children were going to use the CSO 2006 census data as their population denominator. The Traveller groups did not feel confident with this, as they felt the 2006 census did not accurately reflect the true number of Travellers in Ireland, so they commenced a process of asking all Traveller Link Projects to count the local Travellers. The projects in these Networks were asked to identify the number of Traveller families within their working areas. This information was collated and updated for the study, with Pavee Point working jointly with the UCD study team. As part of the verification procedure for this information, the feedback from this process was cross-referenced with the annual count of Traveller families, which is done by the Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government each year. As a result of this process by the Traveller Networks, the mapping figure for the study in September 2008 was a Traveller family population of approximately 9,548. This population count allowed an estimation of the numbers of Peer Researchers and computers required at project level and an estimation of the duration of the census. 49
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