Literal question
5. What is your place of birth?
Give the place of residence of your mother at the time of your birth, not the location of the hospital where you were born.
________If Ireland (including Northern Ireland), write in the county.
________If elsewhere abroad, write in the country.
Interviewer instructions
The purpose of questions 5 to 9 is to study migration patterns, both short-term and long-term. This information will give us a picture of where people are moving to or from and who is moving in terms of age, sex, education, occupation, etc.
Location is a key characteristic that is used with other data to build an accurate picture of our population. It is the basis for population estimates and projections and determining electoral boundaries.
5. What is your place of birth?
Give the place of residence of your mother at the time of your birth, not the location of the hospital where you were born.
If Ireland (including Northern Ireland), write in the county. _____
If elsewhere abroad, write in the country. _____
Comparing place of birth (question 5) and place of usual residence (question 7) indicates longer-term migration.
Likewise, if a person lived outside the country for a continuous period of one year or more.
By comparing a person's usual residence one year before the census (question 8) and their residence at census time (question 7), we get an indication of the extent to which people change residence.
