The C21CM has been developed in order to advance research across a range of
themes. The C21CM can offer a comprehensive evidence base for policy development
and decision making as well as the monitoring of public policy in Northern
Ireland. It can do this by allowing a number of research questions to be
considered. These include, for example, assessing the changing landscape of
diversity in Northern Ireland (national identity, ethnicity, religion, country
of birth and language knowledge), a demographic and occupational profile of
self-employed workers in Northern Ireland and comparing individual and household
characteristics of stay-at-home parents to working parents.