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What do the official childcare prices say for County Cork, school-age in Ireland?

Childcare prices in Ireland, from Central Statistics Office. This source is answered live, so the page shows how to ask, not a number.

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Source
CCA12 - Cost of Childcare (QNHS childcare module), published by Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), as stated for this table on data.gov.ie (license_id CC-BY-4.0, license_title "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0"). Attribution to the Central Statistics Office, Ireland.
Attribution
Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, table CCA12 Cost of Childcare (QNHS childcare module 2016), licensed CC BY 4.0.
How fresh the source is
2016 only (CSO has not repeated the table); regional, not county; ten years old
Limits
Data are from 2016, ten years old: childcare costs in Ireland have changed a great deal since. Regional (NUTS3) figures only, no county, city or town. Averages across all paid childcare households use (centres, childminders and others, part-time and full-time hours together), so there is no split by care type or full-time and part-time, and no separate infant, toddler or preschool figures: pre-school children means all children not yet in primary school. Household-reported costs, not provider fees. The CSO does not say whether costs are before or after any subsidy the household received.
Rule
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