Survey: Irish Health Survey 2019 (Ireland)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Central Statistics Office.

Primary purpose: Is the Irish version of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), a sample survey of the general population, and the goal is to obtain reliable information about health care status and usage in order to create more effective policies.

Type of information: Health behavior and health care usage information, including smoking behavior; screening (colonoscopy); filtered by economic situation, gender, age, region, and disability status. Survey questions access [1].

Source of Information: Responses to the survey questions conducted all over Ireland.

Data level: respondent level.

Available data level: regional level, national level.

Number of Records: 7,621 respondents.

Date Range: 2019. The survey was also conducted in 2015.

Cancer Areas of Interest: All cancer areas related to smoking.

Data access: partially publicly available [2] and [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].