Survey: Healthy Ireland Survey (Ireland)

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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: Survey responses about topics including general health, smoking, alcohol, 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. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: smoking habit, alcohol consumption, suicide awareness, probable mental health problems, health service utilization, self-perceived health, limitations to everyday activities, consumption of medicines, 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. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access in "Contact us".