Northern Ireland Life and Times
The Northern Ireland Life and Times
Survey (NI LTS), launched in the autumn of 1998, monitors the attitudes and
behaviour of people in Northern Ireland annually to provide a time-series and
a public record of how attitudes and behaviour develop on a wide range of social
policy issues.
The survey is funded by the Office
of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC), Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK) and the
University of Ulster. ARK has overall responsibility for the survey and fieldwork
is conducted by the Research and Evaluation Service (RES).
The NI LTS includes questions on background,
rights of the child, public understanding of science, political attitudes, crime
and fear of crime, gender and family roles, community relations and religious
observance. The survey is run on a modular format and while two modules are
repeated every year (Political Attitudes and Community Relations) the rest of
the survey varies annually with all the modules designed to be repeated in years
to come.
The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey is a direct
descendent of the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey (NISA) which ran
from 1989 to 1996. NISA was a sister survey to the British Social Attitudes
Survey.
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