PaRIS Public Use Files

The Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS) project is an OECD initiative that systematically collects Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs), patient background factors (sociodemographic characteristics, health behaviours, and healthcare capabilities, including digital health literacy), and information on primary care practice characteristics.

PaRIS Cycle 1 focused on people aged 45 years and over who received primary care within the 6 months preceding the survey, 80% of which live with chronic conditions. Data collection of the first cycle took place in 2023-2024.

To support wider use of these data, the OECD has made the PaRIS public use files (PUF) available, enabling a broad range of applications, including academic research, policy analysis, and cross‑national comparisons, to contributing to public knowledge and policy learning.

The OECD PaRIS PUF for Cycle 1 (2023-2024) includes patient de-identified micro-data for 15 out of the 19 participating countries. The PUF can be used to cluster patients based on their primary care practice, but practice characteristics have been excluded for privacy reasons. The OECD is following very high standards for data protection and privacy. This means that some variables from the original dataset (the PaRIS International Dataset) have been removed, suppressed (e.g., ethnicity) or recoded (e.g., age) to avoid re-identification.

The files available online include : country-specific PUF,  the codebook and data dictionary and the PaRIS patient questionnaire for Cycle 1 (2023-2024).

If you would like more information about the PaRIS international dataset, please contact paris_survey@oecd.org  

The PaRIS Patient Questionnaire was administered to people aged 45 and older who had a contact with their primary care practice in the 6 months preceding the survey. 

The English version of the Patient Questionnaire used for PaRIS Cycle 1 (2023-2024) is available here: OECD PaRIS Patient Questionnaire (PaRIS-PQ)

To request access to a copy of the Patient Questionnaire in another language please contact paris_survey@oecd.org

The codebook and data dictionary contain

• Variable names, type, label (question asked)
• Answer Values and Codes
• Missingness estimates including percentage
• Remarks about the preparation of the PUF including country specific indicator removals

To access the codebook and data dictionary click here.

• The PUF are available in .dta (for STATA) and .rds (for R) formats for 15 out of the 19 countries who articipated in PaRIS Cycle 1.
• Country-specific notes and data available:  Table Country-specific notes and data.
• To access the PUF please fill out the data access form here PaRIS PUF Users Data Collection

The following links are

• PaRIS Cycle 1 flagship report : Does Healthcare Deliver? | OECD
• PaRIS website: The PaRIS Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys | OECD
• Country-aggregate results of PaRIS 10 key indicators: OECD Data Explorer • Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS)

The documents below are useful resources to support the planning and analysis of PaRIS data.

• Data and methods used for the PaRIS international dataset and flagship report: PaRIS data and methods: Does Healthcare Deliver? | OECD
• Conceptual framework: International survey of people living with chronic conditions: development and evaluation of the PaRIS Patient Questionnaire (PaRIS-PQ) in 18 countries, BMJ Quality & Safety (September 2025)
• Questionnaire development:
  • International survey of people living with chronic conditions: development and evaluation of the PaRIS Patient Questionnaire (PaRIS-PQ) in 18 countries, BMJ Quality & Safety (September 2025)
  • International cross-cultural development and field testing of the primary care practice questionnaire for the PaRIS survey (PaRIS-PCPQ) BMC Primary Care (May 2024)

If you are looking for specific publications about PaRIS, there is a list here: Patient Reported Indicator Surveys documents | OECD

• OECD PaRIS shall be acknowledged as the source of the PaRIS Data in all uses of the Dataset in compliance with the Terms of Use (e.g., presentations, publications, research proposals) as follows: “OECD (2024). Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys Public Use Files".
• When using the PaRIS data, please include the following acknowledgement:
  • The authors would like to thank all patients and primary care professionals who participated in the OECD Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS), without whom this research would not have been possible. We also thank the national teams and health authorities across participating countries in data collection and validation.
• Please mention the following researchers for country-specific acknowledgements:
  • Belgium: Authors acknowledge Sciensano as the data‑contributing institution and Dagmar Annaert and Reindert Ekelson as the data managers.
• Ethics approval statement - particularly for academic publications:
  • In each participating country, the National Project Manager coordinated the processes for obtaining relevant legal and ethical approvals, as appropriate to their jurisdictions. For more information on the approval process in general or the specific requirements of individual countries, please contact the OECD Secretariat. Participants gave informed consent to participate in the study before taking part.
• Funding statement
  • Funding for the first cycle of PaRIS was provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), participating countries and the European Commission.