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Table 1 Inventory of Irish surveys containing questions on healthcare utilisation or health status

From: Assessing direct healthcare costs when restricted to self-reported data: a scoping review

Dataset

Year(s) of data collection

Sample size

Population

Healthcare utilisation data

Additional information

Source

Primary care

Specia-list services

Medi-cinal pro-ducts

Hospital out-patient services

Emergency visits

Hospital inpatient admission

Hospital length of stay

Demo-graphic

Socio-eco-nomic

Health status

Life-style

AITHS

2007

8430

National, Traveler population

X

X

  

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

Census of Population

1971, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2016

4.76 Mil

Population

       

X

X

X

 

CSO/ ISSDA

CoHeart

2000–2001, 2005–2006

1084

Regional - cardiac population in West of Ireland

X

 

X

X

   

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

CSPPA

2009

4122

National, children & youth

       

X

X

 

X

ISSDA

European Social Survey

2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018

 

National

       

X

X

X

 

Europeansocialsurvey.org / ISSDA

EU-SILC

2003–2017

11,130

National

X

 

X

  

X

 

X

X

X

X

Eurostat/ CSO

Growing Up in Ireland

GUI 08: 2008–2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017–2018

11,134

National, children born in 2008

X

X

X

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

 

GUI 98: 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017

8570

National, children born in 1998

X

X

X

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA/ safefood

Healthy Ireland

2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2018–2019

6529

National

 

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA/ DOH

Household Budget Survey

1987, 1999–2000, 2004–2005, 2009–2010, 2015–2016

6839

National

X

 

X

   

X

X

X

  

ISSDA

Insight ‘07

2007

3517

National

X

X

 

X

X

  

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

Irish Health Survey, QNHS

2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013–2016

10,323

National

X

X

X

  

X

X

X

X

X

X

CSO

INTUS

2005

1203

National

       

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

ISSHR

2006

7668

National

X

X

X

X

   

X

X

X

 

ISSDA

Irish EQ-5D-5L

2015–2016

1160

National

       

X

X

X

 

ISSDA

NANS

2008–2010

1500

National

       

X

  

X

UCC / UCD

NPWDS

2006

2711

National

X

X

X

    

X

X

X

 

ISSDA

School Leavers Survey

1980–2007

2025

National

       

X

X

X

 

ISSDA

SPHEREa

2003–2008

960

Regional (Belfast, Dublin & Galway), coronary heart disease

X

 

X

X

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

SLÁN

1998; 2002, 2007

10,364

National

X

  

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA

Sports & PE, QNHS

2013

15,860

National

       

X

X

 

X

ISSDA

TILDA

2009–2016

6279

National, adults aged + 50

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

ISSDA/ TCD

  1. This table presents an inventory of Irish datasets and surveys identified from the websites and repositories of the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA), safefood, Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Department of Health (DOH)
  2. AITHS All Ireland Traveller Health Study, CSPPA Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study, EU-SILC European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions; Insight ‘07, National Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, INTUS Irish National Time-Use Survey, ISSHR Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships, Irish EQ-5D-5L Irish EQ-5D-5L Survey, NANS National Adult Nutrition Survey, NPWDS National Psychological Wellbeing and Distress Survey, QNHS Quarterly National Household Survey – quarterly survey that contains modular additions, SPHERE Secondary Prevention of Heart Disease in General Practice, SLÁN Survey on Lifestyle and Attitude to Nutrition, Sports & PE Sports & Physical Exercise module in QNHS, TCD Trinity College Dublin, TILDA The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing, UCC University College Cork, UCD University College Dublin, X indicates presence variables
  3. aIncluded healthcare cost data (measured in monetary amounts)
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