Ireland

Databases for Clinical Trials, Surveys and Biobanks

Survey: Irish Health Survey 2019

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Central Statistics Office.

Primary purpose: Is the Irish version of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), 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; filtered by economic situation, gender, age, region, and disability status. Survey questions can be found here.

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

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: Regional, national level.

Number of Records: 7,621 respondents.

Date Range: 2019. Survey was also conducted in 2015.

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

Open data access: Data is partially publicly available. Publicly available data can be accessed here. Information on how to access full database can be found here.

Information/Contact for data request: Contact information can be found here.

Survey: Healthy Ireland Survey

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

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

Type of information: Survey responses about topics including general health, smoking, alcohol, weight management, health service utilisation, dental and oral health, skin protection, menstrual health and period poverty, suicide awareness, impact of COVID-19 on health behaviors. The survey questionnaire used for the 2022 survey can be found here.

Available type of information: Survey reports for all the years.

Source of Information: Responses from survey questionnaire.

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: National level.

Number of Records: Around 7,500 respondents.

Date Range: 2014-2022.

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

Open data access: Data is not publicly available. Reports can be found here. Information on how to access microdata can be found here.

Information/Contact for data request: Contact information was not found.