About
Ireland's public data, in one place
Ireland's Dashboard is an independent, public-interest platform for official Irish statistics. It brings figures from public bodies into one common model — place, measure and period — so they can be mapped, charted and compared. The public site is free to use.
Why it was built
Official figures are spread across agency portals, departmental reports and tables inside PDFs. Each source uses its own labels, geography and release timing, which makes simple questions hard to answer: how does one county compare with another, or how has a measure moved since a policy changed?
This site standardises those figures once, so every subject can be explored the same way and measures from different subjects can be set side by side.
Sources and trust
Official observations come from the Central Statistics Office, Eurostat and other public bodies. Each measure names its source table and licence.
Values this site calculates or estimates — a growth rate, a per-capita figure, a provisional extract — are labelled as such and stored separately. They never overwrite the official figure. When a source revises its numbers, the new release is ingested alongside the old one.
Definitions, methods and the revisions policy are set out in full on the methodology page.
How data is kept current
Figures are loaded on a schedule from the source agencies' own data services, not copied by hand. Pages read from this site's own store rather than calling the agencies when you visit.
Sources publish on different timetables, so charts on the same page can end on different dates. Each one shows the latest period its own source supports and says which period that is.
Using and citing the figures
All visualisations and standardised extracts are free to use for reporting, academic research, policy analysis, and public discussion. When quoting a chart or figure, please cite Ireland's Dashboard alongside the primary source authority indicated on each measure.
Feedback
Use this form to report a figure that looks wrong, suggest a measure worth adding, or offer technical help with data pipelines. Including the page or measure helps us check it quickly.
Every message is read, but individual replies are not guaranteed. How corrections are handled is set out under revisions and corrections.