<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Census of Population - Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS), 1991</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://doi.org/10.7929/ISSDA/CJXPSJ</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Central Statistics Office (CSO)</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>ISSDA</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2026-02-17</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-02-17T14:44:43Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>A Census of Population was taken on the night of Sunday, 21 April 1991, in accordance with the Statistics (Census of Population) Order, 1991 (S.I. No. 62 of 1991). &lt;br>
Census data is collected every 5 years.&lt;br>
The Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS) datasets break the national Census data down by various geographic levels  -&lt;br>
(i) District Electoral Divisions and Urban and Rural Districts of each county;&lt;br>
(ii) Wards of the County Boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway;&lt;br>
(iii) Towns with legally defined boundaries;&lt;br>
(iv) Towns of 1,000 population and over (including suburbs or environs, if any);&lt;br>
(v) The total suburbs or environs, if any, of each city or town;&lt;br>
(vi) Where a town of 1,000 population and over is situated in more than one county, separate data
will be available for the part in each county;&lt;br>
(vii) Where a town or the suburbs or environs of a city or town stands on more than one District
Electoral Division, separate data will be available for the part of the town, etc., in each of the
District Electoral Divisions in question;&lt;br>
(viii) Aggregate Town and Aggregate Rural Areas of each county;&lt;br>
(ix) Counties, County Boroughs and Municipal Boroughs;&lt;br>
(x) Planning Regions;&lt;br>
(xi) Health Board Areas;&lt;br>
(xii) District Electoral Divisions or parts thereof designated as Gaeltacht Areas;&lt;br>
(xiii) The Gaeltacht Area of each county;&lt;br>
(xiv) The total Gaeltacht Area of the country.&lt;br></dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Demography</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Economic activity</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Educational background</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Families</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Occupations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Socio-economic status</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Heating systems</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Commuting</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Census data</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Civil status</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Employment status</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Wastewater disposal and handling</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Water supply</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Religious affiliation</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2026-02-17</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Central Statistics Office (CSO)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:temporal>1991-04-21</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:source>Population group</dcterms:source><dcterms:spatial>Ireland</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;b> Data is available to request for non-commercial research and teaching purposes &lt;/b>&lt;br>For non-commercial research use please fill in the ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets here: &lt;a href="https://www.ucd.ie/issda/t4media/ISSDA_Data_Request_Form_for_Research_Purposes_Pseudonymised_Datasets.docx">Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets&lt;/a> and email it to: &lt;a href="issda@ucd.ie">issda@ucd.ie&lt;/a>&lt;br>For teaching use please fill in the ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets here: &lt;a href="https://www.ucd.ie/issda/t4media/ISSDA_Data_Request_Form_for_Teaching_Purposes_Pseudonymised_Datasets.docx">Request Form for Teaching  Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets&lt;/a> and email it to: &lt;a href="issda@ucd.ie">issda@ucd.ie&lt;/a>&lt;br>
&lt;b>Documentation Terms&lt;/b>&lt;br>
Documentation remains the copyright of the creator or depositor.&lt;br>
Documentation is freely available to download outside the ISSDA data request process. Click ‘Accept’ in the ‘Dataset Terms’ window to download or view files.&lt;br>
&lt;b>Data and Documentation Copyright&lt;/b>&lt;br>
Copyright in the Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS) is vested in the Government of Ireland.</dcterms:rights><dcterms:rights>ISSDA may only supply data for use in the Republic of Ireland.</dcterms:rights></metadata>