The CSO has lots of resources that students may find useful for Leaving Certificate projects. There is a wide variety of information available that is useful for understanding and analysing economic concepts, people and society as well as data for research available throughout our site. These resources are listed throughout this page.
We also have a dedicated Leaving Certificate 2024: Economics Research Brief Project page. Here you will find resources that you can leverage to to support you with your project.
Our Statistics Explained section provides information on the types of statistics the CSO produces. We describe the purpose of recording and analysing statistics and how to access more information on these statistics.
Statistics Explored allows users to explore statistics under five general headings:
The CSO hosts an interactive zone that presents a visual way to engage with CSO statistics.
Our visualisation apps allow you to interact with CSO statistics on a number of themes and topics.
The Interactive Zone has links to many useful tools:
CSO visualisation apps allow you to interact with CSO statistics on themes and topics.
Users can explore databases across a wide range of topics, filter tables to suit their needs, represent data on a map, share direct links to tables, export in a number of formats for later use, or even use an external API to remotely access datasets.
Explore topics & themes such as:
As well as hosting interactive visualisation apps we also host information hubs on the following themes:
Visualise Census 2022 data as colour-coded thematic maps.
Explore Census statistics for a range of geographical levels including administrative counties, municipal districts, electoral divisions and small areas.
School Resources: Looking for resources for a project or help with research?
Check out some of our handy links to resources on our website, below.
The CSO organises and is affiliated with a number of national and international statistical competitions.
Our competitions provide an outstanding opportunity for students to showcase their statistical literacy as well as their data analytical and interpretation skills.
PxStat is the CSO’s new Open Data Portal.
The portal hosts statistics from both the CSO and a number of other public bodies.
Users can research a wide range of themes and topics, produce tables and charts from your data and export these in a number of various formats.