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Statistics Ireland 6 Statistics: Tables, Graphs, Charts – Answer Key
Text: web sites containing relevant statistics 
“The Sutton Index of Deaths: Status”, CAIN/University of Ulster: http://goo.gl/b8oP9 
“The Sutton Index of Deaths: Organisation”, CAIN/Univ. of Ulster: http://goo.gl/0kvPf 
“Ireland: Vital statistics Feb. 2012”, IDA Ireland, Dublin: http://goo.gl/0O9bi 
“Bevölkerung in Deutschland, 1871‐2060”, BIB, Wiesbaden: http://goo.gl/XrMXA B 1. TASKS Look at the table of statistical data about deaths in the course of the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2001, provided at this address: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/tables/Status_Summary.html (source: Malcolm Sutton: “An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland” at the website of CAIN ‐ Conflict Archive on the Internet ‐ at the University of Ulster, please copy and paste this hyperlink into your browser). Write a short text (coherent, in full sentences) in which you present the total number of victims and inform your reader about the percentages for the various groups listed there. After that, find out about the organizations responsible for those deaths by consulting another table from the same source at this address: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/tables/Organisation_Summary.html (please copy and paste this hyperlink into your browser), and add your findings to what you have already written. Comment on those numbers briefly. © 2011 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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Statistics Ireland Answer 1. What is remarkable at the very beginning is the total number of deaths: Between 1969 and 2001, over three‐and‐a‐half‐thousand people died (3,529) in the violent clashes over ideas about how Northern Ireland ought to be governed. The group who suffered the most were Northern Irish (and other) civilians; more than half of all victims (52.19 %) were innocent people who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when a bomb went up or a sniper struck. The next biggest group were members of the British security. Just under a third of all victims (31.56 %) died because they were on duty or because they were targeted as members of those services, even if they were at home or on holiday. Of the paramilitary groups, the Republican paramilitary had more victims (11.19 %) than the Loyalist paramilitary (4.76 %). A look at the table listing the organizations responsible for the deaths in the conflict in Northern Ireland shows that by far the highest number is linked to the Republican paramilitary: More than half of the victims (58.40 %) were killed by the IRA and other Republican groups. Less than half of that percentage (but still more than a thousand victims) are linked to Loyalist paramilitary groups (28.79 %), while just over a tenth of the deaths (but still 363) were due to British security. Each and every life that was lost in this political conflict was one too many, but it is especially striking that the Republican paramilitary seems to have been particularly ruthless in their activities, not caring much who had to die from their bullets and bombs. Throughout the 32 years from 1969 to 2001, they killed a statistical average of 1,23 persons every single week. 1 1
Statistics can lead to an impression that numbers count and individual cases are not important, but of course every one of these deaths was a tragedy for the relatives and friends of the victims. In order to remind oneself of these individual tragedies, cf. the stories of five victims collected in the “Ardoyne Commemoration Project (2002)”; copy and paste the following hyperlink into your browser, please: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/victims/ardoyne/ardoyne02b.htm . © 2011 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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Statistics Ireland 2. Compare the population structures of the Republic of Ireland and Germany. Use the following sources for your research: a) “Ireland: Vital statistics February 2012” by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland in Dublin; go to page 6 of the PDF document, and concentrate on the short table under the heading “Population by Age Group April 2010”: http://www.idaireland.com/news‐media/publications/library‐publications/ida‐
ireland‐publications/Vital%20Statistics%20February%202012.pdf (please copy and paste this hyperlink into your browser). b) “Bevölkerung in Deutschland nach Altersgruppen, 1871‐2060” by the Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung in Wiesbaden; concentrate on the first graph at the following address: http://www.bib‐
demografie.de/DE/DatenundBefunde/02/Abbildungen/a_02_18_ag_d_1871_2060_fl
aeche.html?nn=3074114 (please copy and paste this hyperlink into your browser). You will notice that a direct comparison is somewhat difficult as the data are provided in different formats: Whereas the Irish data are numbers in a table, the German data are in a graph which also shows a chronological development ‐ and the age groups are defined differently. Think about regrouping the results to make a comparison possible, and then write a text of about four sentences to convey your findings. Answer 2. The population structures of the Republic of Ireland and Germany are rather different. In order to compare the two sets of data properly, I have divided them into three age groups: 0 to 14 years, 15 to 44 years and older than 44 years. The first group, babies, children and teenagers up to 14 years, makes up more than one fifth of the Irish population (21.6 %), whereas in Germany this age group are only © 2011 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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Statistics Ireland about 12 % of the population. The middle group, older teenagers and adults between 15 and 44 years, are approximately 40 % of the German population and 44.4 % of the Irish population. The oldest group, 45 years and older, makes up 34 % in Ireland and 48 % in Germany. This means that the Irish population is considerably younger than the German one. (Peter Ringeisen) © 2011 Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
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