ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2006 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:5695</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigator</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Devine, P.<br>Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Data Collector</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Millward Brown Ulster<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsor</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Northern Ireland. Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> September 2007 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Devine, P., <i> Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2006</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], September 2007. SN: 5695, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5695-1. </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> ARK </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 5695 . Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2006<br> (NILT) </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Devine, P. , Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research</h5> <h3>Principal Investigator:</h3> <h5>Devine, P. , Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research</h5> <H3>Data Collector:</H3> <H5>Millward Brown Ulster<br></H5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Northern Ireland. Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister<br> </H5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>Lizanne Dowds, of the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK), for funding applications, questionnaire design; Katrina Lloyd, also of ARK, for funding applications, questionnaire design and fieldwork management; Dr Chris Gilligan, of the School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster; Professor Suzanne McDonough, of the School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster; and Professor Dave Baxter, of the School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, New Zealand, for module development.<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The <i>Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey</i> (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous <i>Northern Ireland Social Attitudes</i> series, (held at the UK Data Archive under SN 33235), which was discontinued in 1996. The aims of the NILT series are:<ul><li>to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland</li><li>to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas</li><li>to facilitate academic social policy analysis</li><li>to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland</li></ul>NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the <i>Young Life and Times Survey</i> (YLT - see under SN 33313), although the methodology changed in 2003 (see SN 4826).<br> <br> NILT also forms part of the <a href="http://www.issp.org/" title ="International Social Survey Programme">International Social Survey Programme</a> (ISSP), although it does not do so every year.<br> <br> Further information about the NILT series may be found on the <a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" title="NILT Homepage">NILT</a> pages on the ARK (Access Research Knowledge) web site.<br/></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>The 2006 NILT survey covered:<ul><li>informal carers</li><li>community relations<li></li>health care</li><li>attitudes to minority ethnic people and migrant workers</li><li>political attitudes</li><li>background information on the respondents</li></ul><i>Standard Measures</i>:<br> Registrar General's Social Class and NS-SEC employment classification.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> October 2006 - March 2007 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Northern Ireland <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> No spatial unit <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Adults aged 18 or over, living in private households in Northern Ireland during 2006. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> One-stage stratified or systematic random sample <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> Target: 1,987; obtained:1,230. <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Self-completion <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> Weighting used. See documentation for details. </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Government, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 14 September 2007<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> ARK</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>31 October 2011</h5> </body></html>