A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IRISH
ELECTORAL REGISTER AND ITS USE FOR POPULATION ESTIMATION AND SAMPLE SURVEYS. General Research Series Paper No. 130, July 1986
The Electoral Register’s prime purpose is to serve as a list of those persons
in tile State who are eligible to vote in national and local elections. Apart from
this function it is also used by researchers in the social sciences for other
purposes, as it is tile only regularly updated list of the adult population which is
readily available. In particular, it has been used as a sampling frame for social
surveys and as an indicator of population levels. The accuracy of the Register
is, therefore, of interest to researchers
