Datatypes

Irish Personal Public Service number (PPS)

ID ie_pps

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Personal Public Service Number, the identifier for social welfare, public services and tax in Ireland. It has seven digits and a check letter, sometimes followed by a second letter (A or B for individuals, H for non-individuals such as companies or trusts).

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related

Countries

Ireland

Languages

English

W3C DPV

pd:OfficialID

Microsoft Purview

Ireland personal public service (PPS) number, EU national identification number, EU Tax Identification Number (TIN), EU Tax identification number

python-stdnum

stdnum.ie.pps

Quality

95/100 · missing: translation

Metacrafter rules

no detection rule yet

Supported by tools

AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, DataPrep, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI, python-stdnum, Snowflake sensitive data classification

Regular expression

^\d{7}[A-W][ABHWTX]?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Public_Service_Number
• other: https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.ie.pps.html
• other: https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_ie_pps.html

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ie_pps
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/IE/persons/ie_pps.yaml on GitHub