Survey: Healthy Ireland Survey (Ireland)

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Type of database: survey.

Primary purpose: Obtain information about the health status and behavior of the Irish population.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Department of Health, Statistics, and Analytics Unit.

Type of information: longitudinal. Survey responses about topics including general health, smoking habit; alcohol consumption; medication use; healthcare costs; periodicity of physician consultation; age; sex; marital status; employment status; education; weight management, health service utilization, dental and oral health, skin protection, menstrual health and period poverty, suicide awareness, cancer diagnosis, the impact of COVID-19 on health behaviors.

Data Dictionary: Survey: Healthy Ireland Survey.

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Available type of information: smoking habit, alcohol consumption, suicide awareness, probable mental health problems, health service utilization, self-perceived health, limitations to everyday activities, medication use, drugs prevalence, sex, region, age group, year. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Responses from survey questionnaire.

Data level: respondent level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of records: Around 7,500 respondents.

Date range: 2014-2022.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the PDF format. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

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