Two in three 25-year-olds in Ireland experience some type of discrimination, research has found.
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published “Perceived discrimination and young people’s health and wellbeing in Ireland: A longitudinal analysis”, based on data collected by the Growing Up in Ireland study that interviewed young people born in 1998 when they were 17 and 25 years old.
The research found 76 per cent of those aged 17 reported they had experienced some type of discrimination at least a few times a year. This figure falls to 66 per cent at age 25.
At 17, those who had perceived discrimination most often felt it was related to their age, whereas at 25, gender was the most cited ground.
The ESRI assessed perceived discrimination by using the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS), which measures how often participants perceive day-to-day experiences such as being “treated with less courtesy or respect” or being “threatened or harassed”.
