Aeidin Sheppard's presentation on the data and tools that are available on the CSO website.

1. Open access resources for
Public Health
22nd October 2015
Aeidin Sheppard
Information Officer, CSO
(021) 453 50 26
Aeidin.Sheppard@cso.ie

2. Freely available facts and figures are essential for
driving improvements in public services. It puts
information, and therefore power, in the hands of
the public and the service providers to challenge
or demand innovation in public services.

3. The challenge of building more open, transparent and accountable public
governance in Ireland is one of my key objectives as Minister; and this is
being achieved in terms of the range of reform initiatives currently being
implemented across public bodies. The Open Data Initiative is a key part of
these reform activities. It is closely aligned with the Public Service Reform
Plan, the ICT Strategy, and the Civil Service Renewal Plan. It is also a core
element of Ireland’s Open Government Partnership (OGP) National Action
Plan which I launched in July 2014. Open Data is a particular interest of
mine. I see it as the new basic resource of the 21st century; and publishing
it for re-use offers the possibility of real economic, social and democratic
benefits.
Speech by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr Brendan Howlin TD
at Open Data Event 30 June 2015

4. CSO Dissemination direction
• Emphasis on web based dissemination
• Disseminated in Open Data Formats
• Disseminated under an Open Data License
• All CSO data disseminated to the general
public must be on the Statbank
• More efficient publication processes driven
from Statbank
• Quality and accessibility of data

5. What is Open Data?
Open data is data that can be freely used, re-
used and redistributed by anyone - subject only,
at most, to the requirement to attribute and
sharealike.
Open Data Handbook

6. The 5 stars of open linked data Tim
Berners-Lee
★
make your stuff available on
the web (whatever format)
★★
make it available as structured
data (e.g. excel instead of
image scan of a table)
★★★
non-proprietary format (e.g.
csv instead of excel)
★★★★
use URLs to identify things, so
that people can point at your
stuff
★★★★★
link your data to other
people’s data to provide
context

7. Open Data Licensehttp://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/copyrightpolicy/

8. Where do I find national data?
www.cso.ie
www.statcentral.ie
www.airo.ie
www.cso.ie/en/databases/index.html
(Public Sector Statistics Network)
www.ucd.ie/issda/

9. Where do I find international data?
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_ar
ch_en.htm
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/meti
s/The+Common+Metadata+Framework

10. www.cso.ie

11. CSO Statistics by theme

13. Statbank
• Access to time series data “slice and dice”
• Multiple download formats
• Data conversion to JSON-stat Application Programming
Interface (API) for machine to machine access
• Drives our “quicktables” facility
• Maps and graphs
• Multiple language facility (English and Irish)
• Both file and database versions of PC Axis up on our
website
• Drives an automatically updated key indicators page
• Driver for future electronic releases as our “single source of
open data”

14. StatBank Database

16. Slice and dice

17. Multiple download formats

18. Statbank APIhttp://www.cso.ie/webserviceclient/

19. Quicktableshttp://www.cso.ie/multiquicktables/quickTables.aspx?id=eaa09_1

20. Maps and graphs data

21. Multiple language facility

22. Key Economic Indicators
http://www.cso.ie/indicators/Maintable.aspx

23. Key Economic Indicators (Details)
http://www.cso.ie/indicators/default.aspx?id=2HSM01

24. Public Sector Statistics Network -
making other public data available
• PC-Axis based Database Service
• CSO offers to host Public Sector Data
• Public sees data owner “skin”, links to CSO

25. PSSN – The Health Research Board
http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/pssn/hrb/homepagefiles/hrb_statbank.asp

26. PSSN – The Health Research Boardhttp://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/pssn/hrb/homepagefiles/hrb_statbank.asp

27. HRB – Sample data selection screen

28. StatBank Application Programming Interface (API)
http://www.cso.ie/webserviceclient/datasets.aspx?sp=DB_CP&SPtext=Consumer%20Prices

29. Anonymised datahttp://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/dissemination/accesstomicrodatarulespoliciesandprocedures/anonymisedmicrodatafiles/

30. Census 2011http://www.cso.ie/en/census/

31. SAPMAPS http://census.cso.ie/sapmap/

32. SAPMAPS http://census.cso.ie/sapmap/

33. SAPMAPS

34. Small Area Data

35. StatCentral – Where do I find data?
www.statcentral.ie
StatCentral – the portal to Ireland’s official
statistics
• It provides information about statistics
produced by government departments and
state organisations
• Classified by:
– Statistic Name
– Department/Agency
– Theme

36. www.statcentral.ie The Portal to Ireland’s Official Statistics

37. Search by themes

38. Theme – Disability (Physical & Sensory)

39. Search by classification
http://www.statcentral.ie/viewClassName.asp

40. Sample page – Acute Hospital Services
http://www.statcentral.ie/viewStat.asp?id=61

41. All-Island Research Observatory
http://www.airo.ie/

42. AIRO topics

43. AIROhttp://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/dublin-city

44. AIRO Housing Vacancy
http://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/accessmap

45. AIRO Residential Property Price Index
http://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/rppiaugust2014

46. Irish Social Science Data Archive
www.ucd.ie/issda/

47. Open Government Partnership
http://data.gov.ie/

48. Open Government Partnership
https://data.gov.ie/data/search?theme-primary=Health

49. Follow CSO on Twitter

50. Other CSO Media

51. Thank You!