From 1 August 2025 to 31 January 2026, Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) will conduct the fifth European Health Interview Survey, following the previous round in 2019. This year, the survey will cover 10 thousand usual residents aged 15 and over.
If you have received an invitation letter from the Central Statistical Bureau (hereinafter – CSB), you have been selected for the survey using a random sampling method. You will be asked questions about your health, lifestyle, healthcare services and their accessibility, factors affecting health, and other health-related topics.
Web interviewing
If you have received a postal or e-mail letter inviting you to complete online questionnaire, you can do that at e.csp.gov.lv from August 1 to 31.
Only the addressees of the invitational letter are authorised by the EDC system and can log in with Internet bank, Smart-ID, e-identification card, or e-signature.
Please refer to the Guidelines for help with filling in the e-survey questionnaire (available in Latvian only).
Personal and telephone interviewing
If due to some reason respondent is not able to complete e-survey during the web-interviewing period mentioned, he/she will be contacted by a CSB interviewer from 1 September 2025 to 31 January 2026 to arrange a telephone or face-to-face interview. Upon arrival, the interviewer will present a CSB employee identification card with a photo.
If you want to verify identity of your interviewer or find out any other information about the survey:
- call the toll-free assistance number +371 80008811 on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00; or
- contact the CSB by writing to: eiva@csp.gov.lv
Data confidentiality
The applicable laws and regulations of the European Union and of the Republic of Latvia allow the CSB to collect and process personal data and mandate it to ensure the protection and confidentiality of the data received. The information acquired will only be published as a summarised data and used to analyse economic and social phenomena and processes.
Responsibility of the respondents, in accordance with Section 14 of the Statistics Law, is to support the production of official statistics by providing truthful information and participating in the survey.