Keeping Children Safe and Secure in Ireland:

Examples of accessing statistics and data for research on children

Felix.coleman@cso.ie

Brookfield Health Sciences, University College Cork

15th September 2011

Searching methods• CSO

– CSO website by subject name– CSO website by topic of interest– CSO’s database services: Statbank– Locating additional survey data

• Questionnaires• European Regulations

• Interdepartmental data– StatCentral

• Department of Education• Social conditions

• Other sources– Eurostat– UN

CSO website by subjecthttp://www.cso.ie/default.htm

Search results for “infant mortality”

Select report for investigation

Extract from CSO report.....

General contact information

• Requests for Information• For general enquiries, please contact our

Information Section. Contact details are as follows:

• Email: information@cso.ie• LoCall: 1890 313 414

Statistic domain contacts

For example Infant mortality– Contacts for Vital Statistics – Contact Person(s): Sandra Tobin, Statistician.– Tel no: +353 (0)21 453 5307– Email: vitalstats@cso.ie

CSO website by topic of interestSearch results for “children”

Extract from Report on young people in Ireland 2008

Table 1.1 taken from Report on young people in Ireland 2008 source CSO

CSO “Statbank” Published data that can be manipulated by users

http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/statire/SelectTable/Omrade0.asp?Planguage=0

Options available to create tables of data

Table output for selection on risk of poverty

Locating additional survey data

• European regulations– Variable specification

• CSO questionnaire specification– Questionnaire specification

Accessing information on regulations and questionnaire designs

“StatCentral”http://www.statcentral.ie/index.asp

Education

Social conditions

Extract from CSO QNHS pecial module on childcare

Eurostathttp://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/search_database

Search results for “children”

UNhttp://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

Search results for infant mortality

Infant mortality rates (UN)

UN data “Gapminder”http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=2.99548387096775;ti=1864$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj

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• Questions ?