Growing Up in Ireland is a Government-funded study of children being carried out jointly by the ESRI and Trinity College Dublin. It is managed by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (formerly Department of Children and Youth Affairs) in association with the Central Statistics Office. The study started in 2006 and follows the progress of two groups of children: 8,000 9-year-olds (Child Cohort/Cohort ’98) and 10,000 9-month-olds (Infant Cohort/Cohort ’08). The members of the Child Cohort are now aged about 22 years and those of the Infant Cohort are around 12 years old.
New GUI Report Launch
The latest report from the Growing Up in Ireland study – Key Findings from the Special COVID-19 Survey – was launched online on Friday 26th March, 10am, by Minister Roderic O’Gorman, TD. Full report and videos of the event now available.
Revised contact arrangements
While the Growing Up in Ireland team work remotely during COVID-19, please contact us by email only using Growing.Up@esri.ie. Thank you.
Latest GUI News:
- Key findings from the special COVID-19 survey of GUI participants (collected Dec 2020) were launched on March 26th. Further details here or go directly to the report.
- GUI launched the report, ‘Social-Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Early Adolescence’, on March 11th. Find links to the full report and a summary infographic here.
- During COVID-19 restrictions, please contact the GUI team by email only via Growing.Up@esri.ie
Where are we now:
- Remote fieldwork for the main phase of Cohort ’08 at 13 will start shortly (interviewers’ resources here)
- Fieldwork for the special online ‘Covid-19’ survey has been completed
- The main phase of the Child Cohort ’98 at 20 years has been completed; key findings have been released and data are in preparation.
