Irish Social Science Data Archive
The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) began in September 1997 and ran until Q2 2017 when it was replaced by the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The QHNS also conducted special modules on different social topics each quarter. See below for the full set of QNHS module data held by ISSDA.
Please note that due to CSO restrictions, these files cannot be matched to their associated microdata files.
Study Number (SN): 0035-00
Study Number (SN): 0036-00
Study Number (SN): 0037-00
Study Number (SN): 0038-00
Study Number (SN): 0039-00
Study Number (SN): 0040-00
Study Number (SN): 0041-00
Study Number (SN): 0042-00
Study Number (SN): 0043-00
Study Number (SN): 0044-00
Data is only available for use by bona fide research projects. Any requests for consultancy or commercial uses of this data must be directed to the Central Statistics Office.
To access the data, please complete a ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, sign it, send it to ISSDA by email.
For teaching purposes, please complete the ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, and follow the procedures, as above. This covers sharing of data with students in a classroom situation. Teaching requests are approved on a once-off module/workshop basis. Subsequent occurances of the module/workshop require a new ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets. If students will subsequently using data for projects/assignments they must submit their own request form for Research Purposes. Please contact us if you have any queries.
Data will be disseminated on receipt of a fully completed, signed form. Incomplete or unsigned forms will be returned to the data requester for completion.
Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by the ISSDA, should acknowledge: “Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS)" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.
The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.
The user shall notify the Irish Social Science Data Archive of all publications where she or he has used the data.