Data sources & licences
Thank you
IREPO is built on open data. We are grateful to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and Tailte Éireann for their open data.
These three sources make up the IREPO small-area database: one record for each of Ireland's 18,919 small areas. Everything IREPO shows comes from that one database: the Policy Simulator map, the Dashboard, Indicators & Methods and the files in Downloads. So the licences and credits below apply to all of them.
All three sources are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence, which lets anyone reuse the data as long as the source is credited. The data is grouped by small area, so no person or household can be identified.
Central Statistics Office (CSO)
Census 2022 – Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS)- What IREPO uses it for
- The eight indicators in the Energy Poverty Index (EPI): heating, fuel type, age of homes, renting from the council, renewable energy, unemployment and social class. These feed the scores on the simulator map, the dashboard and the downloads.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · where this is stated
- How to credit it
- Source: Central Statistics Office, Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
National BER Research Tool (anonymised domestic Building Energy Ratings)- What IREPO uses it for
- The BER score: the middle BER rating of the homes assessed in each small area. It is half of the IREPO score, and what the simulator's retrofit lever changes.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · where this is stated
- How to credit it
- Contains data from the SEAI National BER Research Tool. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Tailte Éireann and the CSO
Small Areas – National Statistical Boundaries – 2022- What IREPO uses it for
- The 18,919 small areas, with their county and electoral division. They are the shapes on the Policy Simulator map and the rows in the downloads.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · where this is stated
- How to credit it
- Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Tailte Éireann / CSO) licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What IREPO changed
The IREPO scores are our own analysis of the data above. We took the Census percentages and BER ratings for each small area and combined them into the Energy Poverty Index, the BER score and the IREPO score. See Indicators & Methods for exactly how.
The CSO, SEAI and Tailte Éireann have not reviewed or endorsed IREPO, and are not responsible for how the data is used here. Any mistakes are ours.
Using IREPO data
If you use the IREPO files from Downloads, please credit IREPO and the original sources, for example:
The Policy Simulator map background is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Esri, as shown on the map.