Summary information
Study title
Database of Irish Historical Statistics : Registrar General's Materials, 1922-1971
Creator
Kennedy, L., Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Economic and Social History
Crawford, E. Margaret, Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Economic and Social History
Dowling, M. W., Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Economic and Social History
Clarkson, L. A., Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Economic and Social History
Study number / PID
3543 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3543-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of the project was to provide machine-readable economic and social history statistics relating to the whole of Ireland for the period 1821-1971. Further information about the project is available on the QUB Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis website.Main Topics:
The dataset contains vital statistics of births, marriages and deaths. All the relevant background material is incorporated either in the documentation files or in the scanned images of the tables of contents, prefaces, and notes in the original source. The main vital statistics tables are:
Total number of marriages, births, illegitimate births and deaths grouped by counties and gender.
Total number of deaths grouped by counties, gender and age groups.
Total number of deaths grouped by counties, cause of death, gender and age groups (1952-1971) Republic of Ireland only.
Total number of infant deaths grouped by counties, gender and age groups (1950-1971).
Total number of neonatal deaths grouped by counties and cause of death (1943-1949) Republic of Ireland only.
Total number of marriages grouped by counties, gender and age groups (1948-1971) Northern Ireland only (1957-1971) Republic of Ireland only.
Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1990 - 01/01/1996
Country
Ireland, Multi-nation, Northern Ireland
Time dimension
Time Series
Annual data
Analysis unit
Births
Deaths
Marriages
Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National
Universe
Administrative units in the whole of Ireland, 1821-1971.
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1998
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
Not available