Irish Statistical System Code of Practice

 27 June 2023

Higher Education Authoity received the ISSCoP certification for the following products:

1. Student data
2. Graduate data

22 November 2022

The Department of Education received the ISSCoP certification for the following products:

1. Class Size (UOE[1] Questionnaire)
2. Enrolments (UOE Questionnaire)
3. Entrants (UOE Questionnaire)
4. Quality and Accuracy Information related to Education Statistics
5. Educational Expenditure (UOE Questionnaire)
6. Graduates (UOE Questionnaire)
7. ISCED Mapping (UOE Questionnaire)
8. Foreign Language Learning (Eurostat Questionnaire)
9. Educational Personnel (UOE Questionnaire)
10. Regional Enrolment (Eurostat Questionnaire)

The Department of Health received the ISSCoP certification for the following products:

1. Additional module for Eurostat statistics (Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Health Care statistics)
2. Common module WHO-OECD-Eurostat - Health Care Activities
3. Common module WHO-OECD-Eurostat - Health Employment
4. Common module WHO-OECD-Eurostat - Hospital discharges according to ISHMT/ICD 
5. Common module WHO-OECD-Eurostat - Physical resources
6. Common module WHO-OECD-Eurostat - Workforce Migration 

20 April 2022

The Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment received the ISSCoP certification for two statistical products. The products are:

1. Annual Employment Survey
2. Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact

14 January 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency received the ISSCoP certification for two statistical products. The products are:

1. The Waste Framework Directive Report
2. The Joint OECD Eurostat Municipal Indicator.

    

 29^th May 2020

The Department of Finance received the ISSCoP for the Fiscal Monitor (not including the profiles or the commentary about the profiles).

November 2017

The Revenue Commissioners received the ISSCoP certification for the following products:

1. Revenue Receipts by Taxhead
2. Revenue Receipts by Sector
3. Revenue Receipts by County
4. Breakdown of Capital Acquisition Tax Receipts
5. Breakdown of Stamp Duty Receipts
6. Local Property Tax (LPT) Statistics (end year reports)
7. Local Property Tax (LPT) Statistics (quarterly reports)
8. Costs of Tax Expenditures (Credits, Allowances and Reliefs)
9. Certain Property Based Tax Reliefs
10. Home Renovation Incentive (HRI) Statistics (end year reports)
11. Home Renovation Incentive HRI) Statistics (monthly updates)
12. Employment and Investment Incentive (EII) Statistics 2012-2016
13. Help To Buy (HTB) Incentive Statistics
14. RVA01: Distribution of Income Tax by Type of Gross Income, Range of Gross Income, Marital Status, Year and Statistic
15. RVA02: Distribution of Income Tax by Range of Taxable Income, Marital Status, Year and Statistic
16. RVA03: Distribution of Universal Social Charge by Range of USC Income, Marital Status, Year and Statistic
17. RVA04: Distribution of Income Tax and Universal Social Charge by Range of Gross Income, Marital Status, Year and Statistic
18. RVA05: Distribution of Interest Relief on Home Loans by Range of Total Income, Marital Status, Year and Statistic
19. RVA06: Distribution of Corporation Tax by Range of Net Income, Type of Incomes or Tax, Year and Statistic
20. RVA07: Distribution of Corporation Tax Allowances, Reliefs and Deductions by Range of Net Income, Type of Credit or Deduction or Allowance, Year and Statistic
21. RVA11: Distribution of Main Tax Credits by Marital Status, Type of Tax Credits, Reliefs and Exemptions, Type of Taxpayer and Year
22. RVA08: VAT Payments and Repayments by Range of VAT Payment/Repayment, Year and Statistic
23. RVA09: VAT by Range of Gross Income from Trade or Profession (Case I or II), Year and Statistic
24. RVA10: VAT by Range of Gross Income, Year and Statistic
25. Income Tax Calculation Statistics
26. Income Earners by Income Tax Rate
27. Income Tax
28. Income Earners by USC Rates
29. Corporation Tax Calculation Statistics
30. Registrations, Assessments and Transactions
31. VAT Registrations by Sector
32. Vehicle Registration Tax
33. Breakdown of Capital Acquisition Tax Returns (Geographic)
34. Breakdown of Stamp Duty Returns
35. RTA01: Value Profile of New Cars Registered by Value, Type of Registration and Year
36. RTA02: Profile of Used (Imported) Cars Registered by Age, Type of Registration and Year
37. RTA03: Used Imported Cars by Country of Last Registration and Year
38. Sheriff and Solicitor Enforcement statistics
39. Breakdown by County of the Range of Employments by Employers
40. Excise Receipts by Commodity
41. Excise Volumes by Commodity
42. Excise Licences
43. Breakdown of Betting Duty Receipts
44. Incidence of Duty and VAT Taxation
45. Historic Alcohol Receipts
46. Annual Report Statistics
47. High Income Individuals' Restriction Statistics
48. The Farming Sector in Ireland: A Profile from Revenue Data.

The (ISSCoP) was launched at a statistical symposium on Safeguarding Trust in Official Statistics held at the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland in the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 on 21 November 2013.

The papers presented by the speakers give the background to the Irish Statistical System and to why the Code of Practice has been developed.

Speakers were:

• Walter Radermacher, Director General, Eurostat (2008-2016)
• Pádraig Dalton, Director General, CSO
• Patricia O'Hara, chairperson of the National Statistics Board and member of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board
• Martin Fraser, Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach

Presentations:

Presentation by Pat O'Hara, chairperson of the National Statistics Board (PPT 89KB)   ‌

Presentation by Walter Radermacher, Director General of Eurostat (2008-2016) (PPT 1,330KB)

Presentation by Pádraig Dalton, Director General CSO (PPT 260KB)

Presentation paper by Pat O'Hara, Chairperson of the NSB (PDF 243KB)

Presentation paper by Walter Radermacher, Director General of Eurostat (2008-2016) (PDF 255KB)

Presentation paper by Padraig Dalton, Director General of the CSO (PDF 270KB)