Irish (Ability)

Description

A person has ability in Irish if they can do one or more of the following: understand Irish; speak Irish; read Irish; or write Irish. An ability to speak, read or write Irish does not imply an ability to understand Irish unless stated. Persons in these categories may or may not have the ability to understand Irish. Irish (Ability) is applicable to people aged 3 and over. As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population where no response was expected.

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Label Code
Understands but does not read, write or speak Irish 1
Speaks but does not read or write Irish 2
Speaks and reads but does not write Irish 3
Speaks, reads, writes and understands Irish 4
Other combination of skills 5
No ability in Irish 6
No code required -8