COVID-19 Data Research Hub

Data Collection Type

Additional collated sources of health information-national

Organisation

Central Statistics Office.

Web address

https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/covid-19d…

Year established

2021

Statement of purpose

The purpose of the CSO COVID-19 data research hub is to make individual level administrative COVID-19 datasets available to researchers via the CSO Researcher Microdata Files (RMF) process under Section 20(c) of The Statistics Act, 1993.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

Data extracts provided by the HSE to CSO.

2020 onwards.

Description/Summary

The COVID-19 Data Research Hub contains individual level administrative data sets obtained from the HSE.
The datasets within the Research Hub contain pseudonymised individual level data on those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, been referred for testing, been treated in hospital for COVID-19 or have been identified as being a close contact of a confirmed case.

Data users

Registered researchers from registered research organisations.

https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/registerofresearchorganisations/

Data content

https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/covid-19dataresearchhub/covid-19rmfregister/

Data collection methodology

https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/covid-19dataresearchhub/faqs/

Clinical coding scheme

https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/covid-19dataresearchhub/faqs/