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Survey Name

Environment Household Survey

Survey purpose and legal basis

The Environment Household Survey gathers information on how people in Ireland interact with the environment, particularly in relation to energy use in the home and time spent outdoors in green and natural spaces. It is a voluntary survey carried out under Section 24 of the Statistics Act, 1993.  

Personal data 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. 

Who uses the results?

The data collected in this survey will be published nationally at an aggregated level only. We will ensure that it is not possible to identify an individual person from the data we publish or share. Anonymised survey information may be provided to other government departments, approved organisations and approved researchers for statistical purposes only.

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

All information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential in accordance with Section 33 of the Statistics Act, 1993, and will be used for statistical purposes only.

We will retain the survey data indefinitely as one of the primary purposes of the data collection is to obtain longitudinal information on how people in Ireland interact with the environment, particularly in relation to energy use in the home and time spent outdoors in green and natural spaces.

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

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

Nova Sharkey, Ecosystem and Agriculture Accounts Division, Central Statistics Office, Ardee Road, Dublin 6, D06 FX52,  Tel: (+353) 1 498 4218 E-mail: nova.sharkey@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: