Ireland recorded 1711233 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Ireland reported 8905 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Ireland Coronavirus Cases.

Please see FAQ for latest information on COVID-19 Data Hub Data Flows: https://covid-19.geohive.ie/pages/helpfaqs. Notice: Please note that data for the 30th of May 2023 is missing from this dataset.If you are downloading this data set as a CSV please follow these steps to sort the dataset by date.1. Click the 'Download' button.2. In the download pane that opens on the left, click the 'Download' button under CSV. This should be the first option.3. Open the file.4. Highlight column D by click 'D'.5. In the ribbon, in the Editing group click 'Sort & Filter'.6. From the drop down menu that appears select the first option to sort from oldest to newest.7. In the pop-up window that appears make sure that 'Expand the selection' is selected.8. Click 'Sort', the dataset will now be sorted by date. See the section What impact has the cyber-attack of May 2021 on the HSE IT systems had on reporting of COVID-19 data on the Data Hub? in the FAQ for information about issues in data from May 2021.** Between 14th May 2021 and 29th July 2021 only the fields 'Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases Admitted on site' (SUM_number_of_confirmed_covid_19_ca) and 'Number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hrs' (SUM_number_of_new_covid_19_cases_co) in this service were updated.The fields 'Number of New Admissions COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_new_admissions_covid19_p) and 'Number of Discharges COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_discharges_covid19_posit) have no data during this period of time. **Detailed dataset containing a range of COVID-19 related indicators for Acute Hospitals in Ireland. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges. Data is based on an aggregate of 29 Acute Hospitals. Data has been provided by the HSE Performance Management Improvement Unit (PMIU).This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO). This service and Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub are built using the GeoHive platform, Ireland's Geospatial Data Hub.

Dataset description

Daily official UK Covid data. The data is available per country (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and for different regions in England. The different regions are split into two different files as part of the data is directly gathered by the NHS (National Health Service). The files that contain the word 'nhsregion' in their name, include data related to hospitals only, such as number of admissions or number of people in respirators. The files containing the word 'region' in their name, include the rest of the data, such as number of cases, number of vaccinated people or number of tests performed per day. The next paragraphs describe the columns for the different file types.

Region files

Files related to regions (word 'region' included in the file name) have the following columns: - "date": date in YYYY-MM-DD format - "area type": type of area covered in the file (region or nation) - "area name": name of area covered in the file (region or nation name) - "daily cases": new cases on a given date - "cum cases": cumulative cases - "new deaths 28days": new deaths within 28 days of a positive test - "cum deaths 28days": cumulative deaths within 28 days of a positive test - "new deaths_60days": new deaths within 60 days of a positive test - "cum deaths 60days": cumulative deaths within 60 days of a positive test - "new_first_episode": new first episodes by date - "cum_first_episode": cumulative first episodes by date - "new_reinfections": new reinfections by specimen data - "cum_reinfections": cumualtive reinfections by specimen data - "new_virus_test": new virus tests by date - "cum_virus_test": cumulative virus tests by date - "new_pcr_test": new PCR tests by date - "cum_pcr_test": cumulative PCR tests by date - "new_lfd_test": new LFD tests by date - "cum_lfd_test": cumulative LFD tests by date - "test_roll_pos_pct": percentage of unique case positivity by date rolling sum - "test_roll_people": unique people tested by date rolling sum - "new first dose": new people vaccinated with a first dose - "cum first dose": cumulative people vaccinated with a first dose - "new second dose": new people vaccinated with a first dose - "cum second dose": cumulative people vaccinated with a first dose - "new third dose": new people vaccinated with a booster or third dose - "cum third dose": cumulative people vaccinated with a booster or third dose

Country files

Files related to countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) have the above columns and also: - "new admissions": new admissions, - "cum admissions": cumulative admissions, - "hospital cases": patients in hospitals, - "ventilator beds": COVID occupied mechanical ventilator beds - "trans_rate_min": minimum transmission rate (R) - "trans_rate_max": maximum transmission rate (R) - "trans_growth_min": transmission rate growth min - "trans_growth_max": transmission rate growth max

NHS Region files

Files related to nhsregion (word 'nhsregion' included in the file name) have the following columns: - "new admissions": new admissions, - "cum admissions": cumulative admissions, - "hospital cases": patients in hospitals, - "ventilator beds": COVID occupied mechanical ventilator beds - "trans_rate_min": minimum transmission rate (R) - "trans_rate_max": maximum transmission rate (R) - "trans_growth_min": transmission rate growth min - "trans_growth_max": transmission rate growth max

It's worth noting that the dataset hasn't been cleaned and it needs cleaning. Also, different files have different null columns. This isn't an error in the dataset but the way different countries and regions report the data.

COVID-19Plots and analysis relating to the coronavirus pandemic. Includes five sets of plots and associated R code to generate them.1) HeatmapsUpdated every few days - heatmaps of COVID-19 case and death trajectories for Local Authorities (or equivalent) in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Germany.2) All cause mortalityUpdated on Tuesday (for England & Wales), Wednesday (for Scotland) and Friday (for Northern Ireland) - analysis and plots of weekly all-cause deaths in 2020 compared to previous years by country, age, sex and region. Also a set of international comparisons using data from mortality.org3) ExposuresNo longer updated - mapping of potential COVID-19 mortality exposure at local levels (LSOAs) in England based on the age-sex structure of the population and levels of poor health.There is also a Shiny app which creates slightly lower resolution versions of the same plots online, which you can find here: https://victimofmaths.shinyapps.io/covidmapper/, on GitHub https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVIDmapper and uploaded to this record4) Index of Multiple Deprivation No longer updated - preliminary analysis of the inequality impacts of COVID-19 based on Local Authority level cases and levels of deprivation. 5) Socioeconomic inequalities. No longer updated (unless ONS release more data) - Analysis of published ONS figures of COVID-19 and other cause mortality in 2020 compared to previous years by deprivation decile.Latest versions of plots and associated analysis can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/victimofmathsThis work is described in more detail on the UK Data Service Impact and Innovation Lab blog: https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/visualising-high-risk-areas-for-covid-19-mortality/Adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.1.0.http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

This Project Tycho dataset includes a CSV file with COVID-19 data reported in IRELAND: 2019-12-30 - 2021-07-31. It contains counts of cases and deaths. Data for this Project Tycho dataset comes from: "COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University", "European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Website", "World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard". The data have been pre-processed into the standard Project Tycho data format v1.1.

Dataset on COVID-19 patients in Intensive Care Units in Ireland. Daily data for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges in the past 24 hours. Data is based on an aggregate of adult public hospitals (26 with ICU/HDUs), paediatric hospitals (2 with ICU/HDUs) and private hospitals (5 with ICU/HDUs) . Data has been provided by the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) ICU Bed Information System (ICU-BIS).Time series dataset from March 2020 to November 2025.

Please see FAQ for latest information on COVID-19 Data Hub Data Flows: https://covid-19.geohive.ie/pages/helpfaqs. Notice: See the section What impact has the cyber-attack of May 2021 on the HSE IT systems had on reporting of COVID-19 data on the Data Hub? in the FAQ for information about issues in data from May 2021.** Due to the ongoing disruption to the HSE IT systems, until further notice the updates for this Open Data service will be provided once daily. These fields are 'nCovidConf' (ncovidconf), 'nDischCovidConf' (ndischcovidconf) and 'nAdmitCovidConf' (adcconf). **Dataset on COVID-19 patients in Intensive Care Units in Ireland. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges. Data is based on an aggregate of all public and private ICU/HDU hospitals (including surge units). Data has been provided by the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) ICU Bed Information System (ICU-BIS).This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO). This service and Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub are built using the GeoHive platform, Ireland's Geospatial Data Hub.

COVID-19 is a infectious Disease which has infected more than 500 people in UK and many more people world-wide.

Acknowledgements Sincere thanks to Public Health England and Local governments. Source of Data: UK Government and Public Health UK

****Notes on the methodology**** This service shows case numbers as reported to Public Health England (PHE), matched to Administrative Geography Codes from the Office of National Statistics. Cases include people who have recovered.

Events are time-stamped on the date that PHE was informed of the new case or death.

The map shows circles that grow or shrink in line with the number of cases in that geographic area.

Data from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is represented on the charts, total indicators and on the country level map layer.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2020.

Terms of Use No special restrictions or limitations on using the item’s content have been provided.

Datasets in this publication report the number of diagnoses with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as reported by the Department of Health in Ireland. This includes new cases diagnosed per day and cumulative cases, hospitalisations, ICU admissions, deaths, number of healthcare workers, number of clusters, gender of cases, age groups of cases, mode of transmission, age groups of those hospitalised, and cases per county. To aid standardisation of age groups and cases per county, the population estimates by age group for 2019 and the actual county population in the 2016 Census from Ireland's Central Statistics Office are also included as separate datasets, to allow expression of cases per million population.

These are

1. YYYY-DD-Mon_covid_ie_cases_analysis.csv, where data from Ireland's Health Protection Surveillance Centre is included up to midnight on the date YYYY-DD-Mon.
2. age_population_cso_2019.csv
3. counties_population_cso_2016.csv

Older datasets are also included as follows.

For the files YYYYMMDD_covid_ie_age_groups.csv, variable descriptions are as follows:

• age_group: Age groups, in years
• cases: Total cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Ireland by age group, as per the Department of Health
• pop_estimate: National population estimates by age group for 2019 in Ireland, as per the Central Statistics Office (Table 7 https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2019/), expressed in thousands.
• cases_per_million: Cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Ireland by age group, expressed per 1 million individuals

For the files YYYYMMDD_covid_ie_daily_cases, variable descriptions are as follows:

• date: Date, in DD-MM-YYYY format
• daily_cases: New cases of COVID-19 diagnosed per day in Ireland, as per the Department of Health (https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/)
• cumulative_cases: Cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in Ireland
• percent_daily_increase: New cases of COVID-19 diagnosed per day in Ireland as a percentage of cumulative number of cases up to that date.

Please see FAQ for latest information on COVID-19 Data Hub data flows: https://covid-19.geohive.ie/pages/helpfaqsNotice:Due to the surge of cases over the Christmas period 2021, and increased processing times, updates of the Local Electoral Area (LEA) historic time series were paused. Updates of the historic time series resumed on 25th February 2022 (for cases created up to midnight on 21st February). As work is still ongoing to geo-code all cases created during the surge period, there is a gap in the historic LEA time series for cases created between 21st December 2021 and 21st January 2022. From the week of 30th May 2022 LEA data will no longer be updated.Please refer to the FAQ page for more information.14 Day Incidence of confirmed COVID-19 cases by LEA.14 Day Time Series Incidence Rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases by LEA - Rate per 100kThis hosted feature view provides a visualisation of the 14 Day Incidence rate per 100k population of COVID-19 cases at the Local Electoral Area (LEA) level across Ireland. In total, there are 166 LEA's across Ireland.Please note: For confidentiality reasons, following consultation with the CSO, all LEA's with values below 5 have been suppressed to 'Less than 5'. Where a rate per 100k is set to 'Less than 5' it means that the LEA has a 14 Day incidence below 5 and its value has been suppressed to show 'Less than 5'. This is not an indication of zero (0) confirmed cases. For a proportion of notified COVID-19 cases, their location on the map may reflect their place of work rather than their home address. Confirmed cases have been geo-coded and allocated to Local Electoral Areas (LEA's) by the Health Intelligence Unit (HIU) at the HSE.This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO). This service and Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub are built using the GeoHive platform, Ireland's Geospatial Data Hub.

Notice: Please note that data for the 30th of May 2023 is missing from this dataset.If you are downloading this data set as a CSV please follow these steps to sort the dataset by date.1. Click the 'Download' button.2. In the download pane that opens on the left, click the 'Download' button under CSV. This should be the first option.3. Open the file.4. Highlight column D by click 'D'.5. In the ribbon, in the Editing group click 'Sort & Filter'.6. From the drop down menu that appears select the first option to sort from oldest to newest.7. In the pop-up window that appears make sure that 'Expand the selection' is selected.8. Click 'Sort', the dataset will now be sorted by date. See the section What impact has the cyber-attack of May 2021 on the HSE IT systems had on reporting of COVID-19 data on the Data Hub? in the FAQ for information about issues in data from May 2021.** Between 14th May 2021 and 29th July 2021 only the fields 'Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases Admitted on site' (SUM_number_of_confirmed_covid_19_ca) and 'Number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hrs' (SUM_number_of_new_covid_19_cases_co) in this service were updated.The fields 'Number of New Admissions COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_new_admissions_covid19_p) and 'Number of Discharges COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_discharges_covid19_posit) have no data during this period of time. **Detailed dataset containing a range of COVID-19 related indicators for Acute Hospitals in Ireland. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges. Data is based on an aggregate of 29 Acute Hospitals. Data has been provided by the HSE Performance Management Improvement Unit (PMIU).This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO). This service and Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub are built using the GeoHive platform, Ireland's Geospatial Data Hub.

Dataset containing COVID-19 related indicators for Acute Hospitals in Ireland, as at 8am daily. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases in hospital and the number of new admissions and discharges in the past 24 hrs. Data is based on an aggregate of 29 public Acute Hospitals (adult and paediatric). Data provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Time series dataset from March 2020 to November 2025. ** The Health Service Executive’s (HSE) IT systems suffered a major cyber-attack on Friday 14th May 2021. Between 14th May 2021 and 29th July 2021 only the fields 'Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases Admitted on site' (SUM_number_of_confirmed_covid_19_ca) and 'Number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hrs' (SUM_number_of_new_covid_19_cases_co) in this service were updated with no data available for the other fields. ** Notice:If you are downloading this dataset as a CSV please follow these steps to sort the dataset by date. 1. Click the 'Download' button. 2. In the download pane that opens on the left, click the 'Download' button under CSV. This should be the first option. 3. Open the file. 4. Highlight column D by click 'D'. 5. In the ribbon, in the Editing group click 'Sort & Filter'. 6. From the drop-down menu that appears select the first option to sort from oldest to newest. 7. In the pop-up window that appears make sure that 'Expand the selection' is selected. 8. Click 'Sort', the dataset will now be sorted by date.

Please see FAQ for latest information on COVID-19 Data Hub data flows: https://covid-19.geohive.ie/pages/helpfaqsNotice:Due to the current high levels of cases, the update of the Local Electoral Area (LEA) data is currently paused, given the increased reporting time and prioritisation of resources during this surge period. Updates will resume as early as possible.Please refer to the FAQ page for more information.14 Day Incidence of confirmed COVID-19 cases by LEA.This hosted feature view provides a visualisation of the 14 Day Incidence rate per 100k population of COVID-19 cases at the Local Electoral Area (LEA) level across Ireland. In total, there are 166 LEA's across Ireland.Please note: For confidentiality reasons, following consultation with the CSO, all LEA's with values below 5 have been suppressed to 'Less than 5'. Where a rate per 100k is set to 'Less than 5' it means that the LEA has a 14 Day incidence below 5 and its value has been suppressed to show 'Less than 5'. This is not an indication of zero (0) confirmed cases. For a proportion of notified COVID-19 cases, their location on the map may reflect their place of work rather than their home address. Confirmed cases have been geo-coded and allocated to Local Electoral Areas (LEA's) by the Health Intelligence Unit (HIU) at the HSE.This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO). This service and Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub are built using the GeoHive platform, Ireland's Geospatial Data Hub.

See the section What impact has the cyber-attack of May 2021 on the HSE IT systems had on reporting of COVID-19 data on the Data Hub? in the FAQ for information about issues in data from May 2021.** Between 14th May 2021 and 29th July 2021 only the fields 'Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases Admitted on site' (SUM_number_of_confirmed_covid_19_ca) and 'Number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hrs' (SUM_number_of_new_covid_19_cases_co) in this service were updated.The fields 'Number of New Admissions COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_new_admissions_covid19_p) and 'Number of Discharges COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_discharges_covid19_posit) have no data during this period of time. **Detailed dataset containing a range of COVID-19 related indicators for Acute Hospitals in Ireland. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges. Data is based on an aggregate of 29 Acute Hospitals. Data has been provided by the HSE Performance Management Improvement Unit (PMIU).This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO).

This dataset contains COVID-19 Daily Statistics for Ireland by County as reported by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. This data includes confirmed cases (PCR) only and does not include positive antigen results uploaded to the HSE portal. Time series dataset from March 2020 to November 2023. Deaths: From 16th May 2022 to November 2023 , reporting of Notified Deaths changed from daily to weekly. Data on deaths is based on the date on which a death was notified on CIDR, not the date on which the death occurred. Data on deaths by date of death is available on the HPSC Respiratory Virus Notification Hub https://respiratoryvirus.hpsc.ie/

See the section What impact has the cyber-attack of May 2021 on the HSE IT systems had on reporting of COVID-19 data on the Data Hub? in the FAQ for information about issues in data from May 2021.** Between 14th May 2021 and 29th July 2021 only the fields 'Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases Admitted on site' (SUM_number_of_confirmed_covid_19_ca) and 'Number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hrs' (SUM_number_of_new_covid_19_cases_co) in this service were updated.The fields 'Number of New Admissions COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_new_admissions_covid19_p) and 'Number of Discharges COVID-19 Positive previous 24hrs' (SUM_no_discharges_covid19_posit) have no data during this period of time. **Detailed dataset containing a range of COVID-19 related indicators for Acute Hospitals in Ireland. Data is provided for Confirmed COVID-19 cases and the number of new admissions and discharges. Data is based on an aggregate of 29 Acute Hospitals. Data has been provided by the HSE Performance Management Improvement Unit (PMIU).This service is used in Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub, produced as a collaboration between Tailte Éireann, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), and the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO).

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Press Briefings Corpus is a work in progress to collect and present in a machine readable text dataset of the daily briefings from around the world by government authorities. During the peak of the pandemic, most countries around the world informed their citizens of the status of the pandemic (usually involving an update on the number of infection cases, number of deaths) and other policy-oriented decisions about dealing with the health crisis, such as advice about what to do to reduce the spread of the epidemic.

Usually daily briefings did not occur on a Sunday.

At the moment the dataset includes:

• UK/England: Daily Press Briefings by UK Government between 12 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (70 briefings in total)
• Scotland: Daily Press Briefings by Scottish Government between 3 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (76 briefings in total)
• Wales: Daily Press Briefings by Welsh Government between 23 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (56 briefings in total)
• Northern Ireland: Daily Press Briefings by N. Ireland Assembly between 23 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (56 briefings in total)
• World Health Organisation: Press Briefings occuring usually every 2 days between 22 January 2020 - 01 June 2020 (63 briefings in total)

More countries will be added in due course, and we will be keeping this updated to cover the latest daily briefings available.

The corpus is compiled to allow for further automated political discourse analysis (classification).

Dataset of 14-Day Incidence Rate per 100,000 population of COVID-19 cases at Local Electoral Area (LEA) level in Ireland. This data includes confirmed cases (PCR) only and does not include positive antigen results uploaded to the HSE portal. There are 166 LEA’s across Ireland.Please note: For confidentiality reasons, following consultation with the CSO, all LEA's with values below 5 have been suppressed to 'Less than 5'. Where a rate per 100k is set to 'Less than 5' it means that the LEA has a 14-Day incidence below 5 and its value has been suppressed to show 'Less than 5'. This is not an indication of zero (0) confirmed cases.For a proportion of notified COVID-19 cases, their location on the map may reflect their place of work rather than their home address. Confirmed cases have been geo-coded and allocated to LEA's by the Health Intelligence Unit (HIU) at the HSE.Latest data refers to the 14-day period 10 May to 23 May 2022.

The UK Data Service also holds a Secure Access version of the QLFS (see below); household datasets; two-quarter and five-quarter longitudinal datasets; LFS datasets compiled for Eurostat; and some additional annual Northern Ireland datasets.

LFS Documentation
The documentation available from the Archive to accompany LFS datasets largely consists of the latest version of each user guide volume alongside the appropriate questionnaire for the year concerned (the latest questionnaire available covers July-September 2022). Volumes are updated periodically, so users are advised to check the latest documents on the ONS Labour Force Survey - User Guidance pages before commencing analysis. This is especially important for users of older QLFS studies, where information and guidance in the user guide documents may have changed over time.

LFS response to COVID-19

From April 2020 to May 2022, additional non-calendar quarter LFS microdata were made available to cover the pandemic period. The first additional microdata to be released covered February to April 2020 and the final non-calendar dataset covered March-May 2022. Publication then returned to calendar quarters only. Within the additional non-calendar COVID-19 quarters, pseudonymised variables Casenop and Hserialp may contain a significant number of missing cases (set as -9). These variables may not be available in full for the additional COVID-19 datasets until the next standard calendar quarter is produced. The income weight variable, PIWT, is not available in the non-calendar quarters, although the person weight (PWT) is included. Please consult the documentation for full details.

Occupation data for 2021 and 2022 data files

The ONS has identified an issue with the collection of some occupational data in 2021 and 2022 data files in a number of their surveys. While they estimate any impacts will be small overall, this will affect the accuracy of the breakdowns of some detailed (four-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)) occupations, and data derived from them. Further information can be found in the ONS article published on 11 July 2023: Revision of miscoded occupational data in the ONS Labour Force Survey, UK: January 2021 to September 2022.

2024 Reweighting

In February 2024, reweighted person-level data from July-September 2022 onwards were released. Up to July-September 2023, only the person weight was updated (PWT23); the income weight remains at 2022 (PIWT22). The 2023 income weight (PIWT23) was included from the October-December 2023 quarter. Users are encouraged to read the ONS methodological note of 5 February, Impact of reweighting on Labour Force Survey key indicators: 2024, which includes important information on the 2024 reweighting exercise.

End User Licence and Secure Access QLFS data

Two versions of the QLFS are available from UKDS. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the other is a Secure Access version. The EUL version includes country and Government Office Region geography, 3-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) and 3-digit industry group for main, second and last job (from July-September 2015, 4-digit industry class is available for main job only).

The Secure Access version contains more detailed variables relating to:

• age: single year of age, year and month of birth, age completed full-time education and age obtained highest qualification, age of oldest dependent child and age of youngest dependent child
• family unit and household: including a number of variables concerning the number of dependent children in the family according to their ages, relationship to head of household and relationship to head of family
• nationality and country of origin
• finer detail geography: including county, unitary/local authority, place of work, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2 (NUTS2) and NUTS3 regions, and whether lives and works in same local authority district, and other categories;
• health: including main health problem, and current and past health problems
• education and apprenticeship: including numbers and subjects of various qualifications and variables concerning apprenticeships
• industry: including industry, industry class and industry group for main, second and last job, and industry made redundant from
• occupation: including 5-digit industry subclass and 4-digit SOC for main, second and last job and job made redundant from
• system variables: including week number when interview took place and number of households at address
• other additional detailed variables may also be included.

The Secure Access datasets (SNs 6727 and 7674) have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users will need to gain ONS Accredited Researcher status, complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables. Users are strongly advised to first obtain the standard EUL version of the data to see if they are sufficient for their research requirements.

BackgroundMandatory COVID-19 certification, showing proof of vaccination, negative test, or recent infection to access to public venues, was introduced at different times in the four countries of the UK. We aim to study its effects on the incidence of cases and hospital admissions.MethodsWe performed Negative binomial segmented regression and ARIMA analyses for four countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales), and fitted Difference-in-Differences models to compare the latter three to England, as a negative control group, since it was the last country where COVID-19 certification was introduced. The main outcome was the weekly averaged incidence of COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions.ResultsCOVID-19 certification led to a decrease in the incidence of cases and hospital admissions in Northern Ireland, as well as in Wales during the second half of November. The same was seen for hospital admissions in Wales and Scotland during October. In Wales the incidence rate of cases in October already had a decreasing tendency, as well as in England, hence a particular impact of COVID-19 certification was less obvious. Method assumptions for the Difference-in-Differences analysis did not hold for Scotland. Additional NBSR and ARIMA models suggest similar results, while also accounting for correlation in the latter. The assessment of the effect in England itself leads one to believe that this intervention might not be strong enough for the Omicron variant, which was prevalent at the time of introduction of COVID-19 certification in the country.ConclusionsMandatory COVID-19 certification reduced COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations when Delta predominated in the UK, but lost efficacy when Omicron became the most common variant.