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To request data please complete the relevant request form including the study number and name of the dataset(s) you wish to request.

To request data for research please email the completed ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets to (opens in a new window)issda@ucd.ie.

To request data for teaching please email the completed ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets to (opens in a new window)issda@ucd.ie

Study Number Study Datasets Data Provider Purpose Formats Availability

0001-00

Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and newcomer students

2009

ESRI and Department of Education

Research

SPSS

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0002-00

Attitudes to older people in Ireland

2003

2008

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0003-00

All Ireland Traveller Health Survey (AITHS)

2007

School of Public Health & Population Science, University College Dublin

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0077-00

Benefacts

2022

Benefacts CLG

Research

Teaching

Excel

Apply to ISSDA

0004-00

CDI: Community Safety

2010

2011

Childhood Development Initiative (Tallaght West) and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0083-00

CDI: Doodle Den

2008-2011

Childhood Development Initiative (Tallaght West) and Centre for Effective Education, School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast

Research

SPSS

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0057-00

CDI: Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), 2008 – 2011

2008 – 2011

Childhood Development Initiative (Tallaght West)

Research

Teaching

SPSS 

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0005-00

CDI: Mate-Tricks 

2012

Childhood Development Initiative (Tallaght West) and Queen's University, Belfast

Research 

Teaching

SPSS

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0006-00

CDI: Process Evaluation

2008-2012

Childhood Development Initiative (Tallaght West) and UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0007-00

0008-00

0009-00

Census of Population

COPSAR
1996
2002
2006

POWSAR
2002

SAPS
1981
1986
1991
1996
2002

CSO

Research 

Teaching

SPSS

 SPSS

 CSV

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0056-00

Children’s Profile at School Entry (CPSE) collection, 2008 – 2015

2008 – 2015

Northside Partnership; UCD Geary Institute 

Research

SPSS

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0010-00

The Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study (CSPPA)

2009

2018

2022

University of Limerick, Dublin City University, University College Cork, Ulster University
and Sport Ireland

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0081-00

Choice experiment examining healthcare priotization under financial constraints for people with one or more chronic health condition

2021/22

Research

Teaching

Excel

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0011-00

CoHeart

2000/1 

Health Research Board

Research

SPSS

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0012-00

0013-00

Commission for Energy Regulation

Electricity Smart Meter

Gas Smart Meter

Commission for Energy Regulation

Research

Teaching

CSV

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0069-00

CUPID COVID-19 Survey

2021

Therese McDonnell, Emma Nicholson and Ciara Conlon, UCD IRIS Centre

Research

Teaching

SPSS

Stata

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0064-00

Eager and Able to Learn (EAL) BAseline Survey, 2008-2009

2008

QUB and Athlantic Philanthropies

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0014-00

EU Referendums

Lisbon

2008

2009

Department of Foreign Affairs

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0015-01 - 0015-22

EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)

2003-2024

2010 Module on Intra-household Finances 

2011 Module on Intergenerational Poverty 

Central Statistics Office (CSO)

Research

Teaching

CSV

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0018-00

Eurostudent

Round III
Round IV
Round V
Round VI
Round VII

Round VIII

HEA

Research

Teaching

Stata (III)
SPSS (IV)

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0062-00

Functional Family Therapy in an Irish Context

2018

Professor Alan Carr, Dan Hartnett and Clare Graham from the School of Psychology at University College Dublin

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0019-00

Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), Infant Cohort

Wave 1 (9months)

Wave 2 (3 years)

Wave 3 (5 years)

Wave 4 (7/8 years)

Wave 5 (9 years)

Wave 6 (13 years)

Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Social Protection, CSO, ESRI and TCD

Research

Teaching

SPSS

SAS

Stata

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0020-00

Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), Child Cohort

Wave 1 (9 years)

Wave 2 (13 years)

Wave 3 (17/18 years)

Wave 4 (20 years)

Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Social Protection, CSO, ESRI and TCD

Research

Teaching

SPSS

SAS

Stata

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0075-00

Growing Up in Ireland - COVID-19 Web Survey 

2020

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), CSO, ESRI and TCD

Research

Teaching

SPSS

SAS

Stata

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0021-00

Healthy Ireland

2015
2016
2017
2018

2019

2021

2022

2023

Department of Health

Research

Teaching (2023)

SAS, Stata (2015)

SPSS (2016-2019)

CSV, SAS, SPSS (2021) 

CSV, SAS, SPSS, STATA (2022-2023)

 Please email the completed ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Non-Personal Datasetsto (opens in a new window)issda@ucd.ie

0022-00

Household Budget Survey (HBS)

1987

1999-2000

2004-2005

2009-2010

2015-2016

CSO

Research

Teaching

SPSS, Stata, SAS, CSV (1987, 1994/95, 1999/2000)
SPSS, Stata (2004/05)
SAS, CSV (2009/10)

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0072-00

Housing experience, attitudes and aspirations of Irish Households

2018

2019

The Housing Agency

Research

Teaching

SPSS

Stata

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0023-00

Insight '07

2007

HSE and the School of Public Health Physiotheraphy and Population Science, University College Dublin.

Research

SPSS

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0073-00

IDS-TILDA

2010-2011

2014

2016-2017

2019-2020

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) and Trinity College Dublin.

Research

SPSS

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0086-00

Irish Architecture Career Tracker (IACT) Survey

2023

Dervla MacManus 

Research

Teaching

SAS

SPSS

tab delimited (.dat)

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0060-00

Irish EQ-5D-5L Survey

2015-2016

Health Research Board and Centre for Public Health, Queens University Belfast 

Research 

Teaching

Stata

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0082-00

Irish Health Survey

2015-2019

CSO

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0025-00

Irish National Election Study (INES)

2002-2007

ESRI, TCD and UCD

Research

Teaching

SPSS

Stata

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0027-00 

Irish National Survey of Housing Quality (NSHQ)

2001/02

Department of the Environment and ESRI

Research

SPSS

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0026-00 

Irish National Time Use Survey

2005

ESRI and NDP Gender Equality Unit of the Department of Justice, Equality, and Law Reform

Research

SPSS

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0028-00 

Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey (ISPAS)

2001

ESRI, TCD and UCD

Research

SPSS

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0050-00

Irish Sports Monitor

2011
2013
2015
2017
2019

Sport Ireland

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0024-00

Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships (ISSHR)

2006

ESRI, HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme

Research

Teaching

SPSS

Stata

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0029-00

Irish Survey of Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy (ICCP)

2004

2010

ESRI, HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme

Research

SPSS 

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0030-00

Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE)

StudentSurvey.ie

2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

2022

2023

HEA and The Irish Survey of Student Engagement

Research

Teaching

SPSS (2014-2022)

CSV (2023)

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0061-00

Labour Force Survey

Q1 1998 - Q3 2024

Central Statistics Office (CSO)

Research

Teaching

CSV

SAS

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0070-00

Lived Lives

2020

Prof Kevin M. Malone, University College Dublin, and Dr Seamus McGuinness, GMIT Galway. 

Research
Teaching

Excel

PDF

Apply to ISSDA

0031-00

Living in Ireland (LII)

1994-2001

ESRI, European Community Household Panel (ECHP)

Research

SPSS

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0087-00

National Maternity Experience Survey

2020

HIQA

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0032-00

National Psychological Wellbeing and Distress Survey

2006

2008

ESRI and HRB

Research

SPSS

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0076-00

National Survey of Children, their Parents and Adults regarding Online Safety (NSCPAOS)

2020

Department of Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sport and Media

Research

SPSS

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0048-00

National Survey of Public Attitudes to Disability in Ireland

2006

2011

2017 

National Disability Authority (NDA)

Research

SPSS

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0045-00

National Travel Survey (NTS)

2009

CSO and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport 

Research

Teaching

SPSS, Stata, SAS and CSV

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0033-00

NCPP Surveys of Employee Attitudes

2003

2009

NCPP, ESRI and Amarach Research

Research

SPSS 

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0059-00

0058-00

Opinion Poll Data

2001-2008


2002-2005

Taylor Nelson Sofres MRBI 


Millward Brown 

Research

SPSS 

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0079-00

Parents’ information needs in relation to adolescent self-harm, 2022

2022 

Professor Eilis Hennessy, Aine French, Niki Nearchou and Keith Gaynor, UCD School of Psychology

Research

SPSS

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0071-00

Planet Youth

2018
2020

WRDATF

HSE West

Research

Teaching

SPSS

Excel

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0055-00

Preparing for Life collection (PFL), 2008 - 2015

2008-2015

Northside Partnership; UCD Geary Institute 

Research

SPSS

Stata

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0035-00 

QNHS Special Module: Pensions data

Q1-2002, 

2005-2008, 

Q4-2009 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0036-00

QNHS Special Module: Disability data

Q2-2002

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0037-00

QNHS Special Module: Voter Participation/Abstention data

Q3-2002 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0038-00 

QNHS Special Module: Lifelong learning data

Q2-2003 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0039-00 

QNHS Special Module: Work organisation and working time data

Q2-2004 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0040-00

QNHS Special Module: Crime and victimisation

Q4-1998, Q4-2003 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0041-00 

QNHS Special Module: Health data

Q3-2001, 

Q3-2007, 

Q3-2010 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0042-00 

QNHS Special Module: Childcare data

Q4-2002, Q4-2007  

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0043-00 

QNHS Special Module: Equality data

Q4-2004, Q4-2010 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0044-00 

QNHS Special Module: Carers data

Q2-2004 

CSO

Research

Teaching

Various

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0063-00

Ready to Learn (RTL) Baseline, 2008 

2008

QUB and Athlantic Philanthropies

Research

Teaching

SPSS

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0065-00

Rialto Out of School Time (OST) Project, 2011-2013

2011-2013

QUB and Athlantic Philanthropies

Research

Teaching

SPSS 

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0046-00 

School Leavers Survey

1980-2007

ESRI and the Department of Education

Research

SPSS 

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0084-00

SEAI Survey of Irish Attitudes to Wind and Solar Power

2022

SEAI

Research

Teaching

CSV

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0080-00

Secondary School Staff Confidence and Concerns around Youth Mental Health

2021

Professor Eilis Hennessy, and Maeve Dwan-O’Reilly, UCD School of Psychology

Research

SPSS

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0047-00 

SPHERE

HRB, Irish Heart Foundation, NUIG, QUB, RCSI

Research

Teaching

SPSS 

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0054-00‌ 

Student Activity and Sports Study Ireland (SASSI)

2014-2015

Student Sport Ireland

Research

SPSS

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0085-00

Survey of People in Ireland's attitude towards diversity

2023

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Research

SPSS

Please email completed ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Non-Personal Datasetsto (opens in a new window)issda@ucd.ie

0049-00  

Survey of Public Attitudes Towards Forestry in Ireland

1998 

ESRI and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 

Research

SPSS

Stata 

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0051-00 

Survey on Lifestyle and Attitudes to Nutrition (SLÁN)

1998

2002

2007

ESRI, Department of Health & Children, and others 

Research

Teaching

SPSS (all three), and  Stata and SAS (1998 and 2002 only)

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0052-00 

Teagasc National Farm Survey (NFS)

2000-2015

Teagasc

Research

Excel 

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0053-00

0074-00

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Wave 1, version 1.12 

Wave 2, version 2.7

Wave 3, version 3.6

Wave 4, version 4.4

Wave 5, version 5.5

Harmonized TILDA

TILDA COVID-19

TCD, Irish Life, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Department of Health 

Research

Teaching

Stata

SPSS

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0078-00

Women’s perception and knowledge of prenatal screening for fetal trisomy, 2020

2021

Research
Teaching

SPSS

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Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA)

James Joyce Library, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
E: issda@ucd.ie