Datasets

The Council has produced a number of datasets over the years that may be of use to researchers. These relate to macroeconomic and fiscal data. In addition, data related to each of the Fiscal Assessment Reports are shown in the respective publication pages (starting from November 2015).

Please cite the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and/or corresponding author(s) if you use any of these datasets.

Narrative-based spending shocks dataset

  • Narrative Approach Spending Shocks Dataset

    • This dataset provides time series on spending shocks using the “narrative approach”. The approach used to develop the dataset is set out in an accompanying working paper.

    Long-Run Tax Dataset

  • Long-Run Tax Dataset (2022 Update)

    • This dataset provides long-run estimates of a number of tax heads for Ireland.

    Policy-Adjusted Tax Dataset

    This dataset provides a number of “policy-adjusted” measures of various revenue sources. The dataset and associated working paper (Conroy, 2019) can be found at:

  • Policy-Adjusted Tax Dataset

    • Long-Run Tax Rate and Tax Band Dataset

    This dataset provides detail on Ireland’s tax rates and bands that applied since 1922. The link to the associated working paper (Carroll, 2022) is also included below:

  • Free State to Tax state: A century of taxation in Ireland
  • Long-Run Tax Rate and Tax Band Dataset

    • Long-Run Spending Datasets

    These datasets represent an experimental long-run central government spending dataset for Ireland. The link to the associated Analytical Note (Barbieri and Bewley, 2022) is also included below:

  • Historical Public Spending in Ireland: An Experimental Dataset (Analytical Note)
  • Finance Accounts Dataset
  • Appropriation Accounts Dataset