Survey: Irish Health Survey 2019 (Ireland)

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Type of database: survey.

Primary purpose: A sample survey of the general population, the goal is to obtain reliable information about health care status and usage in order to create more effective policies.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Central Statistics Office.

Type of information: cross-sectional. screening; medication use; age; sex; region; comorbidities; self-perceived health; self-reported prevalence of chronic diseases; diagnosis; type of patient; periodicity of physician consultation; check-up examinations; smoking habit; alcohol consumption. Data Dictionary: Survey: Irish Health Survey 2019. Click here to learn more.

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: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access and click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats JSON; CSV; XLSX and PX. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.