For assistance, call the toll-free number +371 80008811 or email us at epm@csp.gov.lv.
Published: 06.01.2026.
On 6 January 2026, Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) launches a survey on energy consumption in households. Conducted once every five years, the survey collects information on consumption of electricity, natural gas, firewood and other energy resources, together with the related expenditure. The results support the development of the national energy strategy and are used to calculate greenhouse gas emissions.
A total of 11 000 households have been randomly selected to take part and will receive an invitation letter. Respondents will be asked about their dwelling, electrical appliances and vehicles, as well as energy, heating and hot water consumption.
The CSB encourages residents to take part, as each response represents many similar households across Latvia and contributes to data used for planning future energy generation and assessing energy efficiency measures. All information is used only in summarised form, remains confidential, and is not shared with other institutions or third parties.
Web interviewing
If you have received an invitation by post, email or via your electronic address (e-address) to complete the questionnaire online, you can do that at e.csp.gov.lv until 18 January 2026. Due to the large amount of data to be entered, technical limitations do not allow the questionnaire to be completed on a mobile device.
Only the addressees of the invitation letter are authorised to access the questionnaire through the Electronic Data Collection system. You can log in using Internet banking, e-identification card, or an e-signature.
For help with filling in the online questionnaire, please see the guidelines (available in Latvian only).
Personal and telephone interviewing
If, for any reason, you are unable to complete the online questionnaire during the web-interviewing period, a CSB interviewer will contact you from 19 January to 30 April 2026 to arrange a telephone or face-to-face interview.
Interviewers work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends and public holidays, so an interview can be scheduled at a time that is most convenient for you.
When visiting in person, the interviewer will present a CSB employee identification card with a photograph.
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 epm@csp.gov.lv
- Energy consumption: ~28 % of total energy consumed in 2020
- Average electricity consumption per household: 175 kWh per month
- Average expenditure on energy per household: 886 euro
- Devices in households:
- laptop computers: up to 60 % in 2020 from 24 % in 2010;
- desktop computers: down to 26 % in 2020 from 42 % in 2010;
- televisions: down to 93 % in 2020 from 97 % in 2010;
- automatic washing machines: 92 % in 2020;
- electric kettles: 79 % in 2020;
- dishwashers: up to 14 % in 2020 from 11 % in 2015.
More detailed results from the previous surveys are available on the official statistics portal at stat.gov.lv.
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.