Database: Vital Statistics (Ireland)
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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Primary purpose: Provide information about Marriages Registration, Death Registration, Stillbirths Registration, Live Births Registration and Mortality Differentials in Ireland.
Type of information: Age of bride and groom, Previous marital status of bride and groom, Area of residence of bride and groom before and after marriage, Occupation of bride and groom, Place of marriage and Type of marriage ceremony, Date of death, Address of residence of deceased, Place of death, Cause of death, Occupation of deceased, Age of deceased, Sex of deceased, Marital Status of deceased and Birth weight, Gestational Age, Date of birth of the infant, Date of birth of parents, Marital status of the mother, Number of previous children, County of residence of mother, Multiplicity, Occupation of parents, Baby's forename.
Available type of information: Births by age of mother and sex of the child, place of residence, region, within and outside of marriage/civil partnership, the average age of mother, within and outside of marriage/civil partnership, the birth rate per 1,000 Population, date and month of occurrence, previous born children, period of gestation, birthweight, place of occurrence, nationality of mother, nationality of both parents, total number of hospital births, fertility rates, occupation of the mother. number of deaths occurred by area of residence, sex and age group, causes of death, sex and age group. Suicides by area of residence and sex. Published Suicide Deaths and Late Registered Deaths. Live Births and Stillbirths and Infant Mortality.
Source of Information: Methodology for each section of the Vital Statistics database [1].
Data level: patient level.
Available data level: regional level, national level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date Range: "varies" is not a number. varies for each section and variable.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Vital Statistics.
Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3]. Reports information [4].
Contact information: Information [5].
