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Monthly Balance of Payments – Five Minute Survey

Survey purpose and legal basis

This short survey is conducted with the sole purpose to measure economic activity in the Irish economy and facilitate political decision making at National and European level. The results serve as a basis for compilation of the European aggregates of the Monthly Balance of Payments which is publicly available from the European Central Bank and Eurostat.

 

This Statutory Inquiry is conducted under the Statistics (Monthly Balance of Payments Survey) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 581 of 2020), made under the Statistics Act 1993 and Regulation (EC) No 184 of 2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 January 2005 concerning balance of payments statistics.

 

 

Who uses the results?

The data are submitted to Eurostat and the ECB each month and are made available on their website in European aggregate form.

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

Yes. All information supplied to the CSO is treated as confidential. The Statistics Act, 1993 sets stringent confidentiality standards: Information collected may be used only for statistical purposes, and no personal data related to an identifiable person or business undertaking may be divulged to any other government department or body.

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:

Doireann O’Brien, Balance of Payments, Central Statistics Office, Ardee Road, Dublin D06 FX52.

E-mail: doireann.obrien@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.

Central Statistics Office Data Protection Officer Contact Details: