Vital Statistics - Live Births Registration

The data is collected under the Vital Statistics Act 1952 and Section 73 of the Civil Registration Act 2004. Provides information on live births in Ireland, used in calculating natural increase which contributes to the population estimates and in fertility analysis.

Purpose: To collect vital statistics on live births in Ireland.

Coverage: All live births in Ireland.

Data received on an ongoing basis from the GRO.

Data and Resources

This dataset has no data

Additional Info

Field Value
Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
Department of Social Protection
Email
data@department-of-social.ie
Identifier
Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
Department of Social Protection
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 1864
Modification date January 18, 2024
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0128
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

Live births are registered with a local Registrar and General Register Office (GRO). Data are then forwarded electronically from the GRO to the CSO for Vital Statistics.

Data is received weekly from the GRO.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 1864
End
May 22, 2024
Temporal resolution
Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
Geometry
Bounding Box
Centroid
Spatial resolution in meters
Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/NON_PUBLIC
Other identifier
Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
Documentation
Conforms to
Is referenced by
Analytics
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Has version
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Purpose
Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/public-health
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/mental-health
  3. http://health.europa.eu/theme/epidemiology
Legal basis
Minimum typical age 18
Maximum typical age 75
Number of records 1765959
Number of records for unique individuals. 216205
Personal data
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Trusted Data Holder
Population coverage
Retention period
Health data access body
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URI
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