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CSO Division: Administrative Data Centre

 

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

General Registers Office’s (GRO) Death’s Data (as enhanced by CSO Vital Statistics)

Department of Social Protection (DSP) data Revenue: Income Data

To investigate the predictive power of the DSP data (and income data from RC) as predictors of life expectancy, for example marital status, parental status, number of week’s disability payments claimed, percentage of working age spent unemployed. In particular, to investigate the relationship between income and life expectancy in Ireland


Also, to investigate: the relationship between income and cause of death in Ireland; the variance of mortality improvement factors by income; the effect of income on time of death (e.g. do more poor people than rich people die during winter?); income inequality and mortality, over time

End of September 2014

Tabular: Outputs will be banded at a relatively high level. 

They will be banded by income and any other factor that proves to be predictive. 

 

National Disability Survey file

DSFA register of recipients of Disability Allowance

To provide statistical profile of those in receipt of Disability Allowance

One-off

Statistical Tables

None

Higher Education Authority (HEA) Student Record System

Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) awards database

Department of Education and Skills (DES) Post Primary Pupil Database

State Examinations Commission (SEC) exam results database

Department of Social Protection Live Register data

Department of Revenue Income data

Other data sources, as advised by CSO

Initial investigation for developing comprehensive information about learners studying for FETAC qualifications using administrative sources of data 

Ongoing feasibility stage 

Aggregate data either in tabular or database form 

None

 

Post Primary Pupil Database and the Primary Care Reimbursement Service

To provide information on social class data of the profile of pupils attending schools

 Annual

Generate statistics of general interest to the Dept. Of Education and Skills

None

Department of Education's Post-Primary Pupil Database; extract from Department of Social and Family Affairs with details of those claiming Disability Allowance

To conduct a statistical investigation into a possible relationship between claiming DA and leaving school early

2006

Statistical tables

 

 

None

DSFA CRS; DSFA file of new Disability Allowance (DA) claimants in 2005

Statistical analysis of the reasons for the increased takeup of DA

One-off

 

Tabular reports

 

None

Pensions Board PRSA file; the DSFA income file

To estimate the proportion of a person's income used to contribute to PRSAs

Occasional

A report was presented to the Pensions Board

None

PRTB Registered tenants; Revenue Commissioners P35 file and list of rent relief claimants; DSFA CRS and list of rent supplement claimants

To provide an analysis of PRTB tenants, and of tenants who do not claim rent relief

One-off

Statistical Table

None

QNHS analysis, Live Register Analysis, SPP35 and FAS

Evaluation by CSO and the Analytics Institute of the potential to predict the employment outcomes for people over the period of economic downturn

One-off

A report / paper for the ISI conference and a presentation supporting the report.

Business Register

File from Geological Survey of Ireland

To examine inconsistencies in CSO Prodcom file and Geological Survey of Ireland file for enterprise engaged in quarrying

2005

Inconsistencies in different sources examine

Business Register

Revenue Corporation Tax file.

To examine the possibility of using Revenue Corporation Tax data for the CSO

2005

Additional data for the CSO Census of Industrial Production

Business Register

Revenue VIMA (Trade) file

Improved coverage of CSO business register

2005

Improved CSO business registe

Business Register

Environmental Protection Agency file

To assign NACE codes to EPA records

2005

NACE codes assigned to Environmental Protection Agency records

None

Revenue Commisssioners' SSIA file; DSFA Income file

Gender analysis of SSIAs

Annual

A gender table was included in Women and Men in Ireland

 

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CSO Division: Balance of Payments Analysis and Dissemination 

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

CSO Business Register

P35 file from Revenue Commissioners

To investigate relatedness of sectors in the economy

Once off for 2016

Possible future CSO paper

 

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CSO Division: Agriculture, Transport and Tourism

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

December 2005 survey data

Department of Agriculture and Food Cattle Movement Monitoring System (CMMS) data of 1 December 2005

To investigate differences between the two sources

One-off

Quality check on the statistical data

None

 

 

Dept. Of Transport national vehicle file, National Car Testing data, Road Safety Authority commercial vehicle test data, Revenue Commissioners vehicle registration data, Motorcheck.ie database data

To compile and disseminate statistics on travel distances by road

 Annual

Statistics on travel distances by road

None

Dept. Of Transport national vehicle file and Revenue Commissioners vehicle registration data

To link vehicle licensing and registration data together to produce a complete picture of the number and type of vehicles entering the national fleet each month

Monthly

Set of databank direct tables where the user can select either licensing and/or registrations as the statistic of interest

 

None

Animal Identification & Movement database for cattle & the Single Payment Scheme for crops

To enable CSO to use this data to fulfil European requirements for the 2010 Census of Agriculture

One-off

2010 Census of Agriculture results

 

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CSO Division: Demography & Census Outputs

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

None

 

Revenue Commissioners, Employer/employee file; DSFA files containing nationality by PPSN

 

To identify employers employing more than 15 non-national employees registered after 1999

 

2006

 

 

 

Census Regional Supervisors alerted about employers in their own area with significant numbers of Non-National employees with a view to targeting foreign language publicity materials

Census of Population 2006

 

An Post's GeoDirectory

 

 

To put place of work coordinates on the Census file

 

 

One-off

 

 

 

Detailed census statistics at atomic small area level; better statistical information on travel to work; improved data collection for Census 2011

 

Census of Population 2006

General Register Office (GRO) data on mortality

To match mortality data for the year following Census 2006 against Census 2006 data, with the intention of analysing mortality statistics against Census variables such as ethnicity, disability, level of education, and occupation.

One-off

 

Improved statistical information on mortality

 

 

  

 

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CSO Division: Dissemination and Multi-theme Reporting

 

 

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

None

 

 

General Medical Services Payments Board drugs payment files (GMS, LTI and DPS).

Three files have been obtained. A person may be present in more than one of these files. The CSO involvement is to remove instances of such repetition and to produce an anonymised integrated file for analysis of the incidence of epilepsy.

2006

Files have been obtained and CSO matching has to be performed. The files received are already effectively anonymised as they only contain a person's initials. CSO will remove all personal data from the file before completing the matching.

None

Post Primary Pupil Database and DS&FA's Client Record System

To establish the nationality of post-primary pupils

2008

Nationality statistics of post-primary pupils

None

 

Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism capital sports grants data files; Irish Sports Council national governing body and carding schemes.

To produce a new sports statistics release based on existing administrative sports data.

Annual

 

A draft release has been prepared.

 

None

DETE work permits; Department of Justice immigration administrative data files; DSFA incomes file with nationality; Revenue employer file with nationality; DSFA PPSN nationality file.

To examine producing a new immigration statistics release based on existing administrative data

Annual

Project is still in the early stages

None

DSFA and Revenue data files (one file containing data from both departments is received)

To publish gender and age-based income statistics and to prepare a more detailed income statistics report. To provide data to other CSO business Divisions on income and for register maintenance. Income is defined as income liable for social insurance.

Annual

Gender tables were published in Women and Men in Ireland and in Ageing in Ireland. The data were also used in the pensions and SSIA projects, and to provide county income estimates for CSO National Accounts and register data for Business Register Divisions.

 

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CSO Division: External Trade and Environment

 

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

Census of Industrial Production; Annual Services; External Trade data

Environmental Protection Agency and Repak Data

 

To provide estimates at 2-digit NACE level of 'packaging waste placed on the market' for the Environmental Protection Agency

2005

 

Estimates of packaging waste

CSO Business Register, External Trade, CIP and ASI data

Enterprise Ireland (CleanTech directory) 

The primary purpose of the project is to contribute to upcoming Green Economy statistics by matching the Enterprise Ireland CleanTech company directory with CSO Business Register, External Trade, CIP and ASI data. 

Once off for 2013 

The output will be an input into measuring the Green Economy and completing statistical tables for Eurostat for the Environment Goods and Services Sector module. 

 

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CSO Division: Income, Expenditure, Wealth & Modules

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

QNHS module on SSIAs

Revenue file on SSIAs

Revenue data used for grossing purposes

2005

Households and personal income estimates

 

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CSO Division: National Accounts

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

Datasets derived from Business Register; Balance of Payments; Census of Industrial Production; Annual Services Inquiry

 List of financial businesses from the Financial Regulator (formerly IFSRA) and the office of Consumer Affairs

Achieve improvement in NA register of financial businesses

Annual from 2005

 Improve estimates for NA variables

 

 

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CSO Division: Quality Management, Support and Assurance

CSO Dataset Matched

 

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

 

Frequency

 

Statistical Outputs Obtained

QNHS Q data for all quarters 2011 to 2014

 

P35 L Revenue File - 2011 to 2014 

 

 

To create a file containing individual earnings from the P35 and individual characteristics from the QNHS files. This file is being used to examine the feasibility of carrying out an econometric analysis of public/private sector earnings.

One-off 

Dataset to allow for evaluation of feasibility of carrying out an econometric analysis of public/private sector earnings.If feasible a research paper containing non identifiable data will be published.

 

 

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CSO Divsion: Social Data Collection

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

SILC dataset

Revenue P35 file

Verification of income data

Ongoing

Anonymised micro data and aggregated output tables

 SILC dataset

Farm database from Department of Agriculture and Food, Cattle movements and Single Farm Payments

Calculation of farming income for SILC survey

 Annual

Anonymised micro data and aggregated output tables

 

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CSO Divsion: Social Analysis

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

2013 HFCS  (Household Finance and Consumption Survey)

P35 file from Revenue Commissioners

To look at earnings from 2007 to 2012 for employees in the HFCS

2015 once off

Production of an anonymised database linking employee earnings in the HFCS with historic earnings

 

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CSO Division: Structural Business Statistics

CSO Dataset Matched

Non-CSO Dataset Matched

Reason

Frequency

Statistical Outputs Obtained

Business Register

Forfas's Community Innovation Survey 2002-2004

To assign business activity codes to the Forfas data

One-off

Calculation of grossing factors enabled

Census of Industrial Production

EPA Verified Emission Trading Data

To compile statistical information on enterprises that are part of the Emissions Trading system

One-off

 

Tabular statistics on EPA licence holders

International Sourcing Survey 2001-2006, International Sourcing Survey 2009-2011, Business Register, CIP, ASI, BCI, Outward Foreign Affiliates (OFATS) Survey

Intra EU trade data collected from exporters and importers by the Revenue Commissioners (VIMA Office).  Extra EU trade data collected from exporters and importers by the Customs authorities.

Test and implementation of the centrally developed (at Eurostat) micro-data linking methodology, establishment of longitudinal datasets with population of enterprises involved in international sourcing and a control group with similar characteristics for analysis, and production of standardised output for descriptive, longitudinal and impact analysis.

Once off project

The format will take the form of tables with descriptive analysis and regressio

ASI, CIP, BCI, Business Register, Business Demography, eCommerce Enterprise Survey, Community Innovation Survey, Outward Foreign Affiliates (OFATS) Survey, International Sourcing Survey 2009-2011

Revenue: Vat Trade Register, International Trade in Services

The project involves micro-data linking of Structural Business Statistics and other business statistics. The microdata sets have been collected and stored in a standardised format specified by the Eurostat Task Force co-ordinators, and matching between the data sources will begin in or after September 2014. The project will result in the creation of longitudinal datasets of enterprise data for the years 2008-1012 for analysis and the production of standardised output for descriptive, longitudinal and impact analysis.

One-off

Tables with descriptive analysis and regression results will be produced and included in three Eurostat Statistics Explained articles.

National Employment Survey (NES) employee data

DSFA CRS

To check the quality of the NES data; to enhance the statistical results available; and to evaluate the possibility of dropping variables from future NES surveys

Annual

Greater statistical accuracy; enhanced statistical analysis

 

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