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The Statistical Service is launching the Survey on Income and Living Conditions of the Households for the year 2025. The survey, which is carried out annually as from 2005, is conducted in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which all EU member states are obliged to implement.

The main objective of the survey is to collect longitudinal data on households in order to study the living conditions of the population with respect to their income at the European and national level. The statistical data produced are used for the compilation of various socio-economic indicators, such as the “At-risk-of-poverty threshold”, the “Income Classes”, the “Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion” and the “Severe Material and Social Deprivation”. In addition, the indicators and data of this survey facilitate the state social policy and planning.

The survey is conducted on a sample basis and will cover 5.000 households in urban and rural areas of Cyprus.

The briefing of households and the collection of data will take place during the period January-September 2025. For this purpose, trained enumerators who will bear a special identity card of the Statistical Service, will contact the sample households either by a personal visit or by telephone –from landline or mobile– for information and appointment arrangement for the completion of the survey questionnaire.

In case households wish to verify that the telephone number that has called them belongs to an employee of the Statistical Service, they can enter the number in the special tool available on the Statistical Service web portal for confirmation.

The survey is conducted in accordance with the Official Statistics Law of 2021 (Law No. 25(I)/2021). According to the Law, the provision of data for statistical purposes by any person is mandatory. Any person who refuses, omits or neglects to provide data to the Statistical Service, does not comply with the deadlines set or provides false, incomplete or inaccurate data is liable to the consequences of the Law. The Statistical Service is obliged to keep the data reported as confidentialand to use them exclusively for statistical purposes. The results are disseminated in a format that provides the respondents with the appropriate safeguards as to the protection of their personal data.

Contact

Demetra Costa: Τel.: 22605112, E-mail: dcosta@cystat.mof.gov.cy

Charalambos Charalambous: Tel.: 22602241, E-mail:

chcharalambous@cystat.mof.gov.cy

(AS/MS)