Date Last Updated: 25-11-2025
Household Environmental Behaviours
This survey collects information on how households across Ireland interact with the environment, particularly in relation to energy use in the home. The aim was to further our understanding on fuels used for heating and cooking, installations in the home linked to energy usage, sentiment towards electric vehicles (EV) and patterns of EV charging, take up of residential electricity tariffs, generation and export of electricity and electricity usage patterns.
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Ad hoc
Households with at least one resident aged 16 years and over.
Census of Population.
State.
The survey was launched on 03 October 2024 and closed on 29 November 2024. Most of the questions in the Energy Section of the questionnaire were related to the respondent at the time they completed the survey. Some questions require recall of the previous 12 months.
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Household survey of individuals within the household.
The achieved sample size was 3,916 respondents.
Main fuel or energy source used to heat home, additional heating used to heat home, fuels used in open fires/open fires with back boilers, fuels used in stoves or ranges/stoves or ranges with back boilers, fuel sources used in portable room heaters or decorative effect fires, main fuel used for cooking, households generating electricity, households exporting or selling electricity generated to grid, where electric vehicles are charged most often, when electric vehicle normally charged at home, likelihood of purchasing an electric vehicle, which electricity tariff household use for billing, have household changed electricity tariff, change of electricity consumption patterns to take advantage of different rates at different times of day.
Government Departments and State bodies, researchers and academia, general public.
Central Statistics Office
Environment Statistics
Dr. Robert Stapleton
Statistician