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From: Tuars
Date: 08/01/00
Time: 15:20:22
Just doing some searching around the web (trying to educate myself a little) and I found the web site for Pavee Point which gives some statistics about the traveller population. Granted, some of them are a little old (ESRI, 1986) but they give you a good idea.
http://ireland.iol.ie/~pavee/index.htm
Here is one population statistic I pulled out:
The median age of the Traveller community is 14 years. The median age for the national population is 27 years. Only 4.4% of Travellers are over the age of 55 (HRB '86).
80% of Travellers are under 25. Only 5% of Travellers live to be 50 years old and a mere 2% of Travellers live to be 65 (ESRI '86).