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: Data Dictionary: Vital Statiscs - Ireland.

Available type of information: Available Data Dictionary: Vital Statiscs - Ireland. 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 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].