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Document information, versioning and comments

Bibliographic details of the source report, the version history of this dashboard, how the numbers were verified, and how to send comments.

Source document

Title
Health Interview Surveys: Trend Analysis Report
Author / publisher
Directorate for Health Information and Research, Ministry for Health, Malta
Coverage
Malta, population aged 15 years and over
Survey waves
2002 HIS · 2008 EHIS Wave 1 · 2014/2015 EHIS Wave 2 · 2019/2020 EHIS Wave 3
Extent
183 pages · 107 data tables · 69 figures
Language
English
Licence / reuse
Reuse permitted with attribution to the Directorate for Health Information and Research
Recommended citation
Sant Fournier K, England K. (2026). Health Interview Surveys: Trend Analysis Report. Directorate for Health Information and Research, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry for Health, Malta. Available at: https://dhir.gov.mt/en/surveys/

Dashboard version history

  1. v1.52026-09-10Current
    • Rebuilt the health data catalogue: every dataset now carries the full Annex A - Part C metadata element set (HealthDCAT-AP release 7)
    • Catalogue covers the survey modules plus every indexed DHIR and IDCU publication, searchable by source, theme and keyword
    • JSON-LD export at /api/public/healthdcat-ap serialises all 27 metadata elements per dataset
  2. v1.42026-09-08Superseded
    • Added the Infectious Disease Prevention & Control Unit (IDCU) notifiable disease tables: yearly tables 2010-2025 plus every quarterly and monthly table
    • New infectious diseases section with yearly notification trends by disease, sex and nationality
    • IDCU tables are searchable in the report library and data explorer, downloadable as CSV and JSON, and chartable in the chart builder
  3. v1.32026-09-03Superseded
    • Portal-wide data: 365 DHIR publications indexed, with their extracted tables published as CSV and JSON
    • HealthDCAT-AP catalogue now describes one dataset per indexed publication alongside the survey datasets
    • Ask the data now answers from the wider DHIR library, not only the Trend Analysis Report
    • Data explorer adds a cross-report table finder over every extracted table
  4. v1.22026-09-02Superseded
    • Added document information, versioning and acknowledgement pages
    • Added Terms & Conditions, Cookies Policy and Data Protection Policy
    • Added a HealthDCAT-AP compliant health data catalogue with JSON-LD export
    • Every table is now downloadable as CSV or JSON, plus a full long-format export
  5. v1.12026-09-02Superseded
    • Independent second-parser verification of all 12,579 numeric values against the source PDF
    • Percentage and stat-table parsing checks; zero transcription differences found
  6. v1.02026-09-02Superseded
    • Initial release: 107 tables across 32 subsections and 3 modules
    • Trend charts across four survey waves with gender, age and education breakdowns

Data verification record

All 107 tables in this dashboard were transcribed from the published PDF and then checked twice:

  • Transcription check — every cell shipped in the dashboard was compared, character for character, with the extraction output: 0 differences across 107 tables.
  • Independent re-parse — the source PDF was read a second time with a different parser and all 12,579 numeric values were matched back to the page text of their own table: 0 unmatched values.
  • Structure checks — table captions, row labels, row counts and category/wave column pairing verified for all tables; the eight statistical tables (mean, SD, median, IQR) are displayed in tabular form rather than charted so the published values are shown verbatim.

Percentages are reproduced exactly as published and are never recalculated, so columns of non-exclusive response categories will not sum to 100%.

Comments and corrections

Questions about the survey methodology or the published figures should be addressed to the Directorate for Health Information and Research, Ministry for Health, Malta, 95 G'Mangia Hill, Pieta' PTA 1313, Malta. If you spot a discrepancy between a value shown here and the printed report, please report it so it can be corrected and logged in the version history above.

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Queries about the dashboard interface, legal notices, downloads or any other dashboard-level question should be addressed to Dr Stefan Buttigieg, Specialist in Public Health Medicine.

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