---
id: "ie_pps"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["IE"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 95
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ie_pps"
---

# Irish Personal Public Service number (PPS) (`ie_pps`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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).

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Ireland (IE)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `0966186QA` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `2175829QA` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `0966186QA7` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`
- purview: `Ireland personal public service (PPS) number`, `EU national identification number`, `EU Tax Identification Number (TIN)`, `EU Tax identification number`
- stdnum: `ie.pps`

## Supported by tools

- `awsglue`
- `azureailanguage`
- `dataprep`
- `microsoftpurview`
- `nightfall`
- `pythonstdnum`
- `snowflake`

## 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>

## Quality

Score 95/100. Missing: translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ie_pps.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IE/persons/ie_pps.yaml>