Labour Force Survey
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a large-scale voluntary household survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) under Section 24 of the Statistics Act, 1993. The survey provides quarterly statistics on employment and unemployment and is the official source of labour market estimates in the State. This meets the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019, which requires compilation of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.
All personal data collected is lawfully processed under Articles 6(1)(e), and 9(2)(j) of the General Data Protection Regulation and Section 38(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018.
The results from the LFS are only ever made available in aggregate form to the public and we make sure that it is impossible for individuals to be identified.
There is wide national usage from other Government Departments, economists and research bodies. International users also access data from Eurostat and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Anonymised survey information may be provided to other government departments, approved organisations and approved researchers for statistical purposes only.
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 that might be related to an identifiable person or business undertaking may be divulged to any other government department or body.
Survey data files are retained indefinitely for statistical analysis purposes only.
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Andrew Powell, Household Data Collection, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E
Tel: (+353) 21 453 5341 E-mail: andrew.powell@cso.ie
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:
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.
