Edited sentence: 30%, the number of Scots-born Lowland Scots-speakers is 5,031.According to the 2001 census, the total number of Northern Ireland residents born in Scotland was 16,772.If there is the same proportion of Lowland Scots-speakers among them as believed in Scotland itself by the General Register Office in its 1996 study, i.Since Scots-born Lowland Scots-speakers may feel that they are being excluded from applying for jobs or accessing services advertised as "Ulster-Scots", a state-sponsored academic examination of the justifiability of such geographical qualification seems urgently needed.The Ulster-Scots Agency's advertising of a post requiring knowledge of "the Ulster-Scots language" in the Northern Ireland press on Tuesday, 26 April 2005 is even more surprising given the fact that its remit, cited below, defines the speech variety solely as a "variety of the Scots language".This would make those born in Scotland around 14% of Lowland Scots-speakers in the jurisdiction, or one in seven