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Intention to Travel Survey

Survey purpose and legal basis

The purpose of the Intention to Travel Survey (ITS) is to measure intended domestic and outbound travel patterns of Irish residents which involve overnight stays. The ITS is an online survey of Irish residents carried out in April 2021 under Section 24 of the Statistics Act, 1993. Approximately 14,100 households were randomly selected from the CSO’s household register and each received a letter requesting one specific individual in the household complete an online form. The CSO’s household register is based on data from different public sector databases acquired by the CSO under the Statistics Act, 1993.

Participation in the survey was voluntary.

Who uses the results?

The results from the ITS will be published on the CSO website. The principal output will be the number of Irish Residents intending to take trips during ongoing travel disruption due to Covid-19. The data will be used by national and international tourism agencies, Government Departments and other organisations.

Is your personal data confidential and how long will the data be retained?

Yes. All information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential. The Statistics Act, 1993 sets stringent confidentiality standards. Information collected may be used only for statistical purposes, and no details related to an identifiable person or household may be divulged to any other Government Department or body.

Our results are only ever made available in aggregate form and we make sure that it is impossible for individuals or households to be identified.  The data will be securely held for four calendar quarters from the date of the published release and can only be used for statistical purposes.

The sources and categories of your personal data, where the data has not been collected directly from you:

N/A

For further information on this survey, your Data Protection rights and how your data is used please contact:

James Mahon, Tourism and Travel Section, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E.  Tel +353 (21) 4535463 or E-mail tourism@cso.ie

Data Protection Information:

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:

  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. Contact details: Office of the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland.
  • The right to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or to object to the processing of your personal data.

However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:

  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. Contact details: Office of the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland.
  • The right to request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or to object to the processing of your personal data.

However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

Central Statistics Office Data Protection Officer Contact Details: