The annual Healthy Ireland Survey is a repeated cross-sectional annual study that provides an up-to-date picture of the nation’s health along with a robust and credible baseline set of data on a range of health behaviours which have significant impact on individual health outcomes. These data are being used by the Department of Health to inform current and future policy direction and programme development and implementation.

The Survey reports on many lifestyle behaviours such as general health, smoking, e-cigarettes and nicotine products use, alcohol consumption, harms from alcohol, health service utilization patterns, chronic disease incidence, sleep patterns, caring responsibilities, women & caring responsibilities etc. Since 2014, the Healthy Ireland Survey has been administered on an annual basis by Ipsos Ltd. on behalf of the Department of Health. The first 5 Waves, 2015-2019, were conducted via computer aided personal interview (CAPI). However, since 2020 the Survey has been conducted by computer aided telephone interview (CATI). There is no survey for 2020 as the in-person field collection was abandoned due to the onset of the pandemic and imposition of necessary public health restrictions, which prevented in-person interviews. The Survey Reports contain additional details regarding content, results and methodology.

[Note, there are 3 publicly available files and 4 restricted files (where access needs to be requested)]