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February 9, 2014
Valentine’s Day is on the horizon, and it got us thinking in the eightytwenty office about relationship statuses in Ireland. When Google couldn’t settle our argument discussion (there’s a first time for everything), we looked to our social insights team, Discovery, to settle it. We set the insights team on the hunt using Facebook Relationship statuses to find out where all of the singletons were hiding, was it in fact Coppers or would we have the best chances getting out of Dublin for the weekend?
Some of the insights:
• Irish Men are 37% more likely to be single than women.
• Irish Women are 38% more likely to list that they are married on Facebook. What are all their husbands doing if they’re not on Facebook?
• Leitrim have the most complicated relationships in the country. Should we avoid Leitrim men/women?
• If you’re living in Cavan and looking for an open relationship you might want to consider a move over to Monaghan to up your chances considerably from 0.1% to 0.56%. Let’s be honest here, if it’s going to happen it’ll happen, either way if you find that one who doesn’t mind being that special 2 or 3 they’re still more than one in five hundred.
• Beyonce should be booking her next gig in Carlow because that’s where all of the single ladies are hiding, with 33% single. The single men are all hiding out in Limerick with 42% of the men in Limerick claiming they are free and single.
• The women of Wexford are in high demand with only 16% of them still on the “market”, compare this to the male low of 30% in Clare.
• A lot of people don’t want Facebook to know about their relationships with an average of just over 42% of Irish Facebook users choosing not to list a relationship status. We left these secretive folks out to avoid throwing our figures off.
• Dublin is the most secretive about their relationships with 49% of people with an unspecified relationship status. Laois, in contrast, are quite proud with only 33% of people not listing their relationship status.
Some notes on the data:
• Figures were obtained from Facebook.com
• Figures are based on Facebook users within Ireland aged 13+
• Users who did not specify their relationship status were omitted from results. We based results on the premise that each category is equally as likely to update their Facebook status