Keeping Children Safe and Secure in Ireland: Examples of accessing statistics and data for research on children Felix.coleman@cso.ie Brookfield Health Sciences, University College Cork 15th September 2011
Searching methods CSO Interdepartmental data Other sources CSO website by subject name CSO website by topic of interest CSO’s database services: Statbank Locating additional survey data Questionnaires European Regulations Interdepartmental data StatCentral Department of Education Social conditions Other sources Eurostat UN
CSO website by subject http://www.cso.ie/default.htm Search results for “infant mortality”
Select report for investigation
Extract from CSO report.....
General contact information Requests for Information For general enquiries, please contact our Information Section. Contact details are as follows: Email: information@cso.ie LoCall: 1890 313 414
Statistic domain contacts For example Infant mortality Contacts for Vital Statistics Contact Person(s): Sandra Tobin, Statistician. Tel no: +353 (0)21 453 5307 Email: vitalstats@cso.ie
CSO website by topic of interest Search results for “children”
Extract from Report on young people in Ireland 2008
Table 1.1 taken from Report on young people in Ireland 2008 source CSO
CSO “Statbank” Published data that can be manipulated by users http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/statire/SelectTable/Omrade0.asp?Planguage=0
Options available to create tables of data
Table output for selection on risk of poverty
Locating additional survey data European regulations Variable specification CSO questionnaire specification Questionnaire specification
Accessing information on regulations and questionnaire designs
“StatCentral” http://www.statcentral.ie/index.asp
Education
Social conditions
Extract from CSO QNHS pecial module on childcare
Eurostat http://epp. eurostat. ec. europa
Search results for “children”
UN http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Search results for infant mortality
Infant mortality rates (UN)
UN data “Gapminder” http://www. gapminder
Questions ?