1. Keeping Children Safe and Secure in Ireland: Examples of accessing statistics and data for research on children
Brookfield Health Sciences,
University College Cork
15th September 2011

2. 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

3. CSO website by subject http://www.cso.ie/default.htm
Search results for “infant mortality”

4. Select report for investigation

5. Extract from CSO report.....

6. General contact information
Requests for Information
For general enquiries, please contact our Information Section. Contact details are as follows:
LoCall:

7. Statistic domain contacts
 For example Infant mortality
Contacts for Vital Statistics
Contact Person(s): Sandra Tobin, Statistician.
Tel no: +353 (0)

8. CSO website by topic of interest
Search results for “children”

9. Extract from Report on young people in Ireland 2008

10. Table 1.1 taken from Report on young people in Ireland 2008 source CSO

11. CSO “Statbank” Published data that can be manipulated by users

14. Options available to create tables of data

15. Table output for selection on risk of poverty

16. Locating additional survey data
European regulations
Variable specification
CSO questionnaire specification
Questionnaire specification

17. Accessing information on regulations and questionnaire designs

18. “StatCentral” http://www.statcentral.ie/index.asp

19. Education

20. Social conditions

21. Extract from CSO QNHS pecial module on childcare

22. Eurostat http://epp. eurostat. ec. europa

23. Search results for “children”

24. UN http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

25. Search results for infant mortality

26. Infant mortality rates (UN)

27. UN data “Gapminder” http://www. gapminder

28. Questions ?