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 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 report on the The Lives of 17/18-Year-Olds 30th – July 2020
A new report will be launched online with a webinar from 10:30 – 11:30am on July 30th. The report is available here.
GUI Conference 2020: call for abstracts
The Growing Up in Ireland 12th Annual Research Conference will be held on October 22nd 2020. This year it will be a virtual event. The call for abstracts is now open until August 17th (extended from July 29th). See the conference page for more details.
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:
- Online launch of new report on The Lives of 17/18-Year-Olds – July 30th 2020 – download the report or watch the presentation video from this page.
- Growing Up in Ireland 12th Annual Research Conference date announced as Oct 22nd, 2020. Call for abstracts extended to 17th August. The event will be held entirely online.
- During COVID-19 restrictions, please contact the GUI team by email only via Growing.Up@esri.ie
Where are we now:
- The main phase of the Child Cohort ’98 at 20 years has been completed; key findings have been released and data are in preparation.
- The Child Cohort ’98 at age 17/18 years has been completed and both the AMF and RMF files are now open to applications from researchers.
- AMF data from the Infant Cohort ’08 at 9 years are now available.
- Planning for a 13 year visit to Infant Cohort ’08 is underway.