National Travel Survey
The National Travel Survey (NTS) is a household survey on the travel behaviour of respondents and provides detailed information on the domestic travel patterns of Irish residents. This Survey is a voluntary survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office under Section 24 of the Statistics Act,1993.
The results of this survey will be made available in aggregate form only, ensuring that it is impossible to identify individuals. The anonymised survey data may be provided to other government departments, approved organisations, and approved researchers for statistical purposes only.
Tables containing aggregate data from this survey will be made available on the CSO website, and can be used by government, the business community, and members of the public to make informed decisions about life in Ireland.
Yes, all information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential. The confidentiality of data is provided for under sections 32, 33, and 34 of the Statistics Act, 1993, which sets stringent confidentiality standards. These include the use of data for statistical purposes only, and the non-disclosure of data in an identifiable form.
The personal data collected to inform this survey will be stored for a maximum of four months. In addition, the response to the questionnaire will immediately be separated from the personal identifiers, providing further anonymity to responses.
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Tony Kelleher, Social Data Collection, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E.
Tel: +(353) 21 453 5096 E-mail: households@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.