Our statistics about Ireland are independent and reliable, because you told us.
The information you give us lets us create a very accurate picture of what it means to live in Ireland today—our lives, our economy, our health, our education, our happiness and well-being.
The Safety and Well-being survey is a voluntary nationwide survey of individuals carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). This important survey gathers information on your experience of feeling safe and unsafe in your everyday life including personal life, at work and during your free time.
This is the first time the CSO is carrying out this survey. The information we get from you will help shape policies in the future. It is important that we collect information both from people who have experienced feeling unsafe and from those who have not.
We depend on your information, so if you are asked to take part do so because your voice matters.
You were selected totally at random. We can’t survey every person in the state, so a random selection is taken from the CSO’s statistical data sources.
Your participation will represent others who haven’t been chosen to take part and that is why it’s so important to take part.
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.
If you have any questions about your participation, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Email: CSOTakePart@cso.ie
Phone: 021 453 5110
Learn about how the CSO work with data, the protections we have in place, and our approach to ethics and transparency
Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.