SERVICES
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:48:00 BST
Monaghan County Council has procured a software package, the “Economic & Community Monitor (E&C Monitor)”, as an information portal on the county and as a means to supporting the monitoring of the implementation of the Local Economic & Community Plan.
The E&C Monitor contains hundreds of individual indicators under 15 core themes, such as, population, health and wellbeing, housing, education, environment and others. It is primarily based on readily available datasets accessible from a variety of authoritative sources in Ireland but brought together and now accessible through this one portal. It can provide a complete comparative analysis from the County to the town/village level while providing contextual analysis with State and Regional trends.
It is a custom designed software and data solution that consists of relevant and accurate datasets and indicators from the main authoritative sources in Ireland including:
- The CSO National Census return
- Pobal
- HSE
- Higher Education Authority
- Department of Education and Skills
- An Garda Siochana
- Daft.ie
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Department of Social Protection and others
Depending on the data source, the E&C Monitor will be updated on a quarterly basis (Jan, April, July and October) with all datasets being updated where appropriate. Environmental indicators will be updated annually and all Census indicators will be updated with 2016 results in early 2017.
Adding data and indicators to the conversation brings a new perspective to the topic. The E&C Monitor pushes the direction of the conversation from “anecdotal” to “hard data” evidence. It will provide users with the ability to compare and contrast indicators in seconds, at any time and on any platform (laptop, tablet, mobile).