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Chapter 3 — Social and demographic profile of witnesses

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Age at time of hearing

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Chapter 4 provides information on the reported circumstances that led to these witnesses being placed in out-of-home care as children.


Footnotes
  1. See chapters 12-18.
  2. Of note is the fact that witness reports from ‘Other Institutions’ referred to discharges up to the year 2000.
  3. This percentage is based on a total of 791 witnesses who reported abuse in Industrial and Reformatory Schools.
  4. The categorisation is based on Census 2002, Volume 6 Occupations, Appendix 2, Definitions – Labour Force. In two-parent households the father’s occupation was recorded and in other instances the occupational status of the sole parent was recorded, insofar as it was known.