The State of the Nation’s Children (SONC) report provides a comprehensive picture of our children's lives. It presents key information on children’s health, behavioural and educational outcomes, and their relationships with their parents and their friends.

SONC provides the most up-to-date data on the National Set of Child Wellbeing indicators, and:

• charts the wellbeing of children in Ireland
• tracks changes over time
• benchmarks progress in Ireland relative to other countries

SONC is widely used as a resource by policy makers, the research community and civil society, and aims to inform government policy on children, young people and families.

Sections: 

• Key findings
• Part 1: Sociodemographics
• Part 2: Children's Relationships
• Part 3: Children's Outcomes
• Part 4: Formal and Informal Supports
• Appendices

Note, outcomes data are drawn from the CSO (Vital Statistics); the Health Behaviour of School aged Children (HBSC) surveys; the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys; the National Intellectual Disability Database; the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database; the National Perinatal Reporting System; the Healthcare Pricing Office; the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative; the National Suicide Research Foundation; the Department of Education (DE); DCEDIY; and Tusla.

Accessing Data: In line with the government’s Open Data Initiative, much of the data is now available in an open, machine-readable format. The majority of the data is housed in the Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) PxStat system. In recent publications, click on the heading of each table and figure in the section to access the data source.