CHARSET="UTF-16";
AXIS-VERSION="2013";
LANGUAGE="en";
LAST-UPDATED="20250723 11:00";
OFFICIAL-STATISTICS="YES";
DECIMALS=1;
MATRIX="GUI50";
SUBJECT-AREA="Growing Up In Ireland";
SUBJECT-CODE="GUI";
DESCRIPTION="Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years";
TITLE="Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years - Low or Normal Self Esteem, Sex, Highest level of Education and Year 2018 (Wave 4) - 2023 (Wave 5)";
CONTENTS="Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years";
UNITS="%";
STUB="Statistic";
HEADING="Year","Low or Normal Self Esteem","Sex","Highest level of Education";
CONTVARIABLE="Statistic";
VALUES("Statistic")="Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years";
VALUES("Year")="2018 (Wave 4)","2023 (Wave 5)";
VALUES("Low or Normal Self Esteem")="Low Self esteem","Normal self esteem","Self esteem - Levels not stated";
VALUES("Sex")="Both sexes","Male","Female";
VALUES("Highest level of Education")="NFQ Level 6 or lower","NFQ Level 7 or higher","All NFQ Levels";
TIMEVAL("Year")=TLIST(A1),"2018","2023";
CODES("Statistic")="GUI50C01";
CODES("Low or Normal Self Esteem")="40","41","42";
CODES("Sex")="-","1","2";
CODES("Highest level of Education")="61","71","-";
DOMAIN("Low or Normal Self Esteem")="C04089V04851";
DOMAIN("Sex")="C02199V02655";
DOMAIN("Highest level of Education")="C03427V04134";
UNITS("Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years")="%";
REFPERIOD("Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years")=" ";
BASEPERIOD("Self esteem of respondents aged 25 years")=" ";
SOURCE="Central Statistics Office, Ireland";
NOTE="GUI data was revised on 23 July 2025 due to a syntax error when calculating the weights. These weights have been corrected and the updated figures reflect this correction. The impact of these changes on the results presented in the original release is minor and do not affect the high-level results and trends presented in the original release. For details see, [url=https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/in/gui/informationnotegrowingupinirelandcohort98atage25mainresults/]Information Note.[/url]

Education Data for 2018 Not Available.

Self-esteem was calculated using the six-item Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale (see [url=https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-guic98/growingupinirelandcohort98atage25mainresults/backgroundnotes/]background notes[/url] for details). For this analysis, those with a score of 8 or less were categorized as having low self-esteem.";
DATA=
".." ".." 16.1 ".." ".." 12.9 ".." ".." 19.4 ".." ".." 82.8 ".." ".." 85.9 ".." ".." 79.7 ".." ".." 1.1 ".." ".." 1.2 ".." ".." 1 26.5 17 20.9 18.6 17.9 18.2 34.5 16.1 23.4 57.8 69.7 64.9 64.5 70.5 68 51.1 69 61.9 15.7 13.3 14.3 17 11.6 13.8 14.4 14.8 14.7;