Households to be asked to track spending habits for two weeks

More than 6,000 households will be asked to take part this year, with high-level data to be published on how Irish households spend their money from next year onwards.

Households are to be asked to track how much they spend across the space of 14 days as the State’s statistics body tries to get to grips with the nation’s spending habits.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) said to help itself and the public understand how inflation affects our pockets, it will now conduct the Household Budget Survey annually instead of every five years.