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ESRI Living in Ireland Survey

The Living in Ireland Surveys form the Irish component of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP): an EU-wide project, co-ordinated by Eurostat, to conduct harmonised longitudinal surveys dealing the social situation, financial circumstances and living standards of European individuals and households. 

The fact that the same set of households is interviewed each year means that it is possible to study changes in the characteristics and circumstances of particular households or individuals over time. Living in Ireland provides harmonised cross-sectional surveys for each year in which the survey is conducted, as well as longitudinal data, which permits dynamic analysis of changes over time.

To apply for access to this data, please download and complete the Data Request Form, and send a signed hard copy to ISSDA (see Contact page for address).

Note Data is provided in SPSS format
Codebook LII-Dictionary-Oct04.pdf
Overview LII-Overview.pdf
Sample Size
Year Household Sample Size Individual Sample Size
1994 4048 9904
1995 3584 8530
1996 3174 7487
1997 2945 6865
1998 2729 6321
1999 2378 5449
2000 3466 8051
2001 2865 6518

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