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27th September 2019
04:22pm BST

These statistics have been categories by the CSO as "Under Reservation" — a designation which indicates that "the quality of these statistics do not meet the standards required of official statistics published by the CSO."
By way of explanation, the CSO have clafiried: "PULSE data is now subject to a number of separate ongoing quality reviews and does not currently meet the CSO’s standards for completeness and accuracy. The timeline for the completion of these reviews has been extended on a number of occasions and at present there is no firm completion date.
"The CSO is mandated to produce statistical outputs relating to economic, social and general activities, and conditions in the State. Crime statistics form a key part of such information."
The CSO expects the above statistics to be revised in future, with specific reference to homicide figures. They note: "There is an ongoing review by An Garda Síochána into the recording of homicide incidents. This review covers the period 2003 – 2017. It is likely that this review will result in changes to the classification of some incidents.""Data quality issues raised by the CSO in relation to the recording of homicide incidents may also result in further revisions of homicide data.
"Robust, trustworthy crime statistics are a vital tool for decision makers and of significant public interest and the CSO remains committed to advising and assisting AGS in improving the quality of its data."Explore more on these topics:

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