Open access resources for Public Health

22nd October 2015

Aeidin SheppardInformation Officer, CSO

(021) 453 50 26 Aeidin.Sheppard@cso.ie

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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/

Where do I find international data?

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_arch_en.htm

http://www.oecd.org/statistics/

http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/metis/The+Common+Metadata+Framework

www.cso.ie

CSO Statistics by theme

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”

StatBank Database

Slice and dice

Multiple download formats

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

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

Maps and graphs data

Multiple language facility

Key Economic Indicatorshttp://www.cso.ie/indicators/Maintable.aspx

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

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

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

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

HRB – Sample data selection screen

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

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

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

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

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

SAPMAPS

Small Area Data

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

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

Search by themes

Theme – Disability (Physical & Sensory)

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

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

All-Island Research Observatoryhttp://www.airo.ie/

AIRO topics

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

AIRO Housing Vacancyhttp://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/accessmap

AIRO Residential Property Price Indexhttp://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/rppiaugust2014

Irish Social Science Data Archivewww.ucd.ie/issda/

Open Government Partnershiphttp://data.gov.ie/

Open Government Partnershiphttps://data.gov.ie/data/search?theme-primary=Health

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