Panel Surveys - Household Environmental Behaviours Survey

The Household Environmental Behaviours Survey collects information from householders on environmentally relevant issues such as energy use, transport options, and use of energy efficient devices. The questions aim to further our understanding on fuels used for heating and cooking, how and when we heat our home, installations in the home linked to heating and energy efficiency, electric vehicle chargers and electric vehicle charging, and generation and export of electricity.

The survey also captures information on electricity tariffs and electricity usage as well as sentiment towards heat pumps, electric vehicles, and changing electricity tariffs. In addition, the survey captures information on transport, such as bicycle and e-bike use. Spending choices in relation to energy efficiency of new appliances, eco-packaging, and waste is also captured.

Ireland is moving towards renewable energy, with changes to technology in relation to heat and power generation, energy consumption, and energy conservation. The Household Environmental Behaviours Survey aims to grow our understanding on households take up of these new technologies, and how expenditure decisions are made. This survey is also building a picture around how, when, and why households consume energy.

Comparison with earlier surveys builds our understanding around changing behaviours such as growth in the use of renewable technologies and changes in energy consumption in households. In addition, capturing information on transport, packaging, and waste and why new technologies and solutions are not taken up is important in building a comprehensive picture of household behaviours towards the environment.

The CSO has set up a panel of randomly selected citizens to participate in a series of short surveys. If you were selected for this panel, you will be contacted by email or phone to complete this survey.

If you are contacted via email, information on how to take part in the Household Environmental Behaviours Survey will be included in the email. You can access and complete the questionnaire using the CSO identifier and PIN provided in the email and following the provided link, or click here to login to the survey.

If we contact you by phone, you can complete the survey by answering the survey questions over the phone.

If you are asked to take part, please do so because your voice matters.

Protecting your confidentiality is at the heart of everything we do. Your confidentiality is guaranteed by law under the Statistics Act, 1993, which means no individual, household or enterprise can be identified from the data we publish. The information you provide is generalised, so nobody is identifiable from the data you provide and it is only used for statistical purposes. We’d like to thank you for your trust in us.

Because confidentiality is so important to our work, we have developed a Trust & Transparency page.