Family: Sixteen per cent of young people have parents who are separated or divorced, with a further 5 per cent having a widowed parent, according to The Irish Times/TNS mrbi youth poll.
It has also emerged that 82 per cent of 15-24-year-olds live at home with their parents, with more than half of those aged 23 to 24 still doing so.
There is a striking difference among social categories in the rate of marriage breakdown among parents. It is highest among the less well-off C2DE social category and lowest among farmers.
Some 16 per cent of parents in the less well-off C2DE class are separated, with a further 5 per cent divorced. In the better-off ABC1 group, 12 per cent are separated and 1 per cent divorced while among farmers, just 2 per cent are separated and none divorced.
Overall 77 per cent have parents who are still married, 13 per cent have parents who have separated, the parents of 3 per cent have divorced, 5 per cent have a widowed parent and 2 per cent did not say.
Young people who have themselves already married before the age of 24 are more likely to come from homes where their parents separated. Of the young people already married, just 59 per cent of their parents are still married compared to 79 per cent of the parents of single young people.
In some 40 per cent of families, both parents are working.
Some 24 per cent have fathers working only, 13 per cent mothers only, 4 per cent have neither working and 1 per cent didn't say.
Families in which both parents work are more common in Dublin (47 per cent) compared to the rest of Leinster (42 per cent), Munster (39 per cent) and Connacht/Ulster (30 per cent). They are also more common among farming families (48 per cent) and the ABC1 social class (45 per cent) compared to the C2DE class (34 per cent).
Living at home with parents is most common among late teenagers and young adults from a farming background. Some 94 per cent of farmers' children aged 15 to 24 live at home with their parents, 83 per cent of the ABC1 class do so and 78 per cent of the C2DE group do.
The practice of living at home is evenly spread across the regions apart from Connacht/Ulster where a higher percentage have left home and just 71 per cent live with their parents.
Some 99 per cent of the 15-17-year-olds do so, 86 per cent of those aged 18 to 19, 81 per cent of those aged 20 to 22 and 53 per cent of the 23-24 age group.