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 21 years and those of the Infant Cohort are around 11 years old.
Save the date – GUI Conference 2019 on Nov 21st
The call for abstracts for Growing Up in Ireland’s 11th Annual Research Conference (21st November 2019) is now closed. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks.
Two new GUI reports launched February 21st
Pictured at the launch of the latest GUI reports are the authors, representatives from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and young helpers. L-R: Dr Eoin McNamara (ESRI), Dr Aisling Murray (ESRI), Dr Anne-Marie Brooks (DCYA), Dr Clare Farrell (DCYA), Mille Palmer (age 5), Professor Emer Smyth (ESRI), Professor Dorothy Watson (ESRI), Professor Richard …
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Invitation to submit details of GUI publications and theses
You can now inform the GUI team of new peer-reviewed publications and completed postgraduate theses using GUI data using online forms. More details on the external publications page.
Latest GUI News:
- Winners from the prize draw for participants in the age 20 wave have been notified. There were four computer tablets and ten vouchers given away – congratulations to the lucky winners!
- Call for abstracts for the GUI Annual Conference 2019 scheduled for 21st November in the Gibson Hotel, Dublin has closed. Further details will be announced in due course.
- Researchers who have used GUI data for peer-reviewed publications or completed postgraduate theses are invited to submit details for listing on the website – see this page for more details
Where are we now:
- The main phase of the Child Cohort at 20 years has just been completed.
- The Child Cohort at age 17/18 years has been completed and both the AMF and RMF files are now open to applications from researchers.
- Fieldwork for the main phase of the Infant Cohort at 9 years has been completed.