Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office

9:00 am

Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

Yes, secondary sources. Secondary sources are basically data held by Departments, Civil Service bodies, local authorities and public service bodies. We have a legal right of access to those data. We can integrate them and provide new statistical analysis. One sees a lot of that. Almost 55% of all CSO outputs now incorporate what we call blended administrative data. It involves administrative data linked with other administrative data, or administrative data linked with statistical data. We are continually moving in that direction.

Does Ms Hurley want to say something about staffing and risk?

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