Some Online Irish Education Data That You May Not Have Seen

1. Primary-school class sizes for the last four years: data available by primary-school and class-room. The source for this data is the Annual Census of Primary Schools.

2. Retention Rates of Pupils in Second-Level Schools: 1991 to 2001 Entry Cohorts. These data are aggregated but provided on a county by county basis. The overall Leaving Certificate retention rate has increased in the five years between the 1996 cohort and the 2001 cohort: from 81.3% to 84.7%.

3. The State Examinations Commission website has a statistics page providing Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate grade information for every subject, and by gender, for the years 2000-2010.

Statistical Potential of Administrative Records

The CSO have released a relatively new document in the series on the Statistical Potential of Administrative Records. This one was published in February of this year, and examines the statistical potential of taxation, duty and trade data collected by the Revenue Commissioners.

Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland

If anyone is interested, tomorrow evening there is a meeting of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, starting at 6 pm, at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

The President, Dr Donal de Buitleir, will be in the chair when Mr Mark Turner (HSE) will present a paper titled "HealthStat: supporting high performance in the health system." More details here:

http://www.esri.ie/news_events/events/forthcoming_events/event_details/index.xml?id=219

Also, a note for your diaries: on the 13th May, Dr. Liam Delaney will be awarded with the Society's Barrington medal.

Again, the venue is the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. And the time will be 6pm. More details available here:

http://www.ssisi.ie/meeting.php

StatCentral.ie

Thanks to the Irish Economy blog for pointing us towards StatCentral.ie. Its a new CSO-maintained data site that brings together all the CSO data, plus data from a range of other official agencies. Should be useful.