Idb-data-sets

Background and purpose of this report

National IDB data need to be checked for conformity with the IDB standards (correct format, valid codes, complete metadata etc.) before being uploaded to the EU Injury Database and published at the IDB web-gate of DG Sanco. During all the years since the creation of the database, this task has been carried out by appointed members of the network of IDB data providers as part of projects, co-funded by the Commission. The upload of data of the years 2009-2013 was carried out within the framework of the “Joint Action on Monitoring Injuries in Europe JAMIE” (contract 20102205).

“Maintenance and reporting of current and new IDB data” was one objective and one work-package of the JAMIE project and comprised the clearing and uploading of national data. Data of national data suppliers was pooled, cleared, and finally forwarded to DG Sanco for being published at the IDB web-gate. The actual work was divided between the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV) and Swansea University (SU). In general, KFV was responsible for coordination & guidance of IDB-partners, and SU for actual data handling & clearing.

Three “calls for data” took place in the course of the JAMIE project:

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  A first call in the first half of 2012 collected the data of the years 2009 and 2010 in order to produce an updated edition of the report “Injuries in the European Union”, covering the years 2008-2010 (issue No. 4). This call dealt only with FDS (full data set) data.
  
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  A second call in the second half of 2013 collected the data of the years 2011 and 2012 and provided the basis for another issue of “Injuries in the European Union”, covering the years 2010-2012 (issue No. 5). For the first time, this call collected also MDS (minimum data set) data from 2010 onwards, as far as available.
  
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  A third call took place in the first half of 2014 and collected data of the year 2013. Main purpose was to publish data also from those JAMIE partners, which have just recently started the data collection, and to demonstrate the increased geographical coverage of the IDB system.
  

Information on data provided in response to the first call (2009 and 2010 data) is given in the “Report on the Upload of Data 2009 and 2010” (JAMIE deliverable 8, part 1, October 2012).

This report deals with the second and the third call (2011, 2012 and 2013 data) and covers “full data set” (IDB-FDS) and “minimum data set” (IDB-MDS) data as well. While the main purpose of IDB-FDS is to provide information about external circumstances like involved products, the main purpose of IDB-MDS is to provide national incidence rates and estimates. IDB-MDS has been introduced in 2012 in order to reduce the burden of data collection with a view to facilitate the participation of countries and to increase the quality of national estimates through bigger and better balanced national samples.

Main purpose of this report is to inform data users briefly about origin and quality of data published at the IDB web-gate. Each dataset (by country, year and type of dataset) is accompanied by a metadata form (“national IDB file information form”), and annexed to the “upload reports”.