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1.1. Contact organisation | Central Statistics Office, Ireland |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Tourism and Travel Section |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Skehard Road, Cork T12 X00E, Ireland |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 03/11/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 03/11/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 03/11/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||
The purpose of the Household Travel Survey (HTS) is to measure domestic and outbound travel patterns involving both overnight stays and same-day trips and associated details (expenditure, purpose of trip, type of accommodation used etc.) of Irish residents. Information is collected via postal survey of private households on a monthly basis by the Central Statistics Office. |
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||
National tourism: domestic tourism and outbound tourism (trips made by residents of the reporting country). |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||
Coverage - Time [data comparable since (YYYY)]
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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Not applicable. |
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2022 |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | ||||
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | ||||
Not applicable. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The confidentiality of all information provided by respondents to the CSO is guaranteed by law under the Statistics Act, 1993. All CSO office personnel become 'Officers of Statistics' on appointment and are liable to penalties under this Act if they divulge confidential information to any outside person or body. See - https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/informationfordataproviders/ |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Every precaution is taken to ensure that there are no violations of confidentiality during the HTS survey process. All forms are scanned and verified as soon as they are received in the office and the original forms are then stored in a secure and locked cabinet for a short period before they are destroyed (under specific conditions for confidential data). Data is published in aggregate form only, ensuring that no individual or household can be identified. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The deadlines for release of quarterly data are included in the advance calendar, which is available on the CSO website. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
[Optional] |
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Quarterly |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
There are no press releases associated with the publication of HTS data. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Release of all data for 2022 can be found here - https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-hts/householdtravelsurveyquarter4andyear2022/ |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
CSO Online Database - |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
There is no microdata access to HTS data |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
None |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Standard Report on Methods https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/tourismandtravel/householdtravelsurvey/ |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Standard Report on Quality https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/qualityreports/householdtravelsurvey/ |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | ||||
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | ||||
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12.3. Completeness | ||||
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HTS data published for 2022 was compiled as travel resumed following the COVID-19 crisis. The results continue to reflect some of the impacts of the COVID-19 situation which includes small realised sample sizes for certain trip categories - particularly outbound trips in the first half of the year. Non-response (unit and item) - the unit non-response rate for the realised sample is 68.7% for 2021. Approximately 8% of the original sample was returned to the office uncompleted (i.e. were blank). At an item level the questions on age and gender can be sensitive and respondents may not be prepared to reveal this information. Respondents are also less likely to complete the expenditure questions. Measurement errors - are not formally measured for the Household Travel Survey. Processing errors - are not formally measured for the Household Travel Survey. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.2.1 Sampling errors - indicators
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13.3.1 Coverage errors
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14.1. Timeliness | ||||||
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||
There are no problems of comparability between geographical regions. Information is collected via postal survey of private households on a monthly basis by the Central Statistics Office. The HTS is a random stratified sample - stratified by NUTS3 regions and house tenure type. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||
The data collected by the CSO's Tourism surveys for domestic and inbound travel is combined and this is compared with data from Failte Ireland. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||
Data is checked on a quarterly basis for conistence and coherence to the same period in previous years. |
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Restricted from publication |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
There are no provisional results published for the HTS. Revisions are made to the data when required - revisions are usually made due to a review and change in methodology for the HTS. These are highlighted on the HTS release. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Since COVID-19 there have been a number of minor data revisions and users have been asked to treat the data with caution since tourism has gone through a period of great changes since 2019, which has yet to settle back into a stable series of travel patterns. |
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18.1. Source data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.1.1. Source data
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18.3.1. Type of survey
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18.6. Adjustment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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[Optional] |
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