It provides a government research function delivering a research programme anchored on the NI Programme for Government (PfG). The ARU team continuously engage with departmental policy leads to identify novel data linkage opportunities to take forward timely and policy-relevant research.
Most recently, the ARU team published their analysis of Covid-19 mortality in March-September 2020, by equality group, health and socio-demographic characteristics.
Other published research included analysis of:
- Covid-19 related mortality (December 2021);
- mental health status of the population in employment (September 2021)
- alcohol related deaths (March 2021); and
- drug-related deaths (March 2020)