Our statistics about Ireland are independent and reliable, because you told us.
The information you give us means we can create a very accurate picture of Ireland, our lives, our economy, our health and our happiness.
This survey has now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated in this important survey.
This survey, which is being undertaken by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), is a nationwide survey of Irish employees that provides detailed information on Earnings statistics. It is a compulsory survey carried out in all European Union member states by institutes including the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
In Ireland this statutory survey is conducted under the provisions of the statistics (Structure of Earnings Survey) Order 2019 (S.I. No 368) made under Section 25 of the 1993 Statistics Act.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is Ireland’s national statistics office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland, our people and society. We collect data under the Statistics Act 1993 to provide official statistics to inform decision making across all aspects of Irish society. We run several household and business surveys, as well as the census, to collect and report on statistics about all aspects of life.
We can’t survey everyone in Ireland, so we take a random sample of 40,000 employees from all over the country. It is important that everyone sampled takes part. The facts we get directly from you through SES help policy makers when making decisions that affect us all, such as low pay and the gender pay gap. The results also help the EU compare earnings across all member states.
It depends on your employment, but we believe that, on average, it won’t take longer than 10 minutes.
The CSO collects contact details from a wide range of sources, both from social surveys and statistical data sources made available to us under the Statistics Act, 1993. All data collected and used by the CSO is stored securely and is only used for the purpose of producing national and international statistics.
Under Section 25(1) of the 1993 Statistics Act you are obliged by law to complete and submit this survey. All persons selected for this survey are mandated under the statistics act to take part.
We want to gather your data so don’t worry if you cannot do the survey online. Contact us on (021)453 5110 if you cannot do the survey online and we will arrange to have a paper survey form sent to you so that you may take part in the survey.
We analyse the data and publish it by categories such as age group and gender and it is anonymised. Nobody is identifiable from this data. We never share your data with any other agency or government department and once published we delete data that we don’t require.
Confidentiality is a core value of the CSO. The CSO will never share your information with another company, business or Government Department or body. We only use your data for statistical purposes. That means we remove all identifying information such as your name and your specific address. We use broad information such as the general area where you live (e.g. Cork), your age and your sex and then aggregate this data so nobody is identifiable from the data provided.
For more information about this survey and how your data will be used, please contact us:
Tel: (021) 453 5110
Email: ses@cso.ie
Contact: Terry O’Hagan
CSO Surveys, Central Statistics Office,
Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E
Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.