Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey - Datasets
The dataset for each survey year is available in SPSS dataset and STATA v14 formats.
The data must be weighted (unless using household variables). For full details, please see the technical notes, which should be used along with the datasets.
A series of teaching datasets have been developed, designed to be used on courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences.
All work that uses or refers to the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the appropriate bibliographic citation. To view the citation for each year, please click on the word 'citation' below.
| YEAR | SPSS | STATA | |
| 2023 | NILT 2023 data (421KB) | NILT 2023 data (2.9MB) | Citation |
| 2022 | NILT 2022 data (515KB) | NILT 2022 data (3.6MB) | Citation |
| 2021 | NILT 2021 data (549KB) | NILT 2021 data (3.7MB) | Citation |
| 2020 | NILT 2020 data (428KB) | NILT 2020 data (2.9MB) | Citation |
| 2019 | NILT 2019 data (389KB) | NILT 2019 data (2.6MB) | Citation |
| 2018 | NILT 2018 data (408KB) | NILT 2018 data (2.6MB) | Citation |
| 2017 | NILT 2017 data (389KB) | NILT 2017 data (2.5MB) | Citation |
| 2016 | NILT 2016 data (493KB) | NILT 2016 data (2.6MB) | Citation |
| 2015 | NILT 2015 data (892KB) | NILT 2015 data (4.5MB) | Citation |
| 2014 | NILT 2014 data (753KB) | NILT 2014 data(4.6MB) | Citation |
| 2013 | NILT 2013 data (832KB) | NILT 2013 data (5.3MB) | Citation |
| 2012 | NILT 2012 data (621KB) | NILT 2012 data (4.2MB) | Citation |
| 2011 | The 2011 survey did not run in 2011 as we were unable to confirm the full package of funding required in time to allow fieldwork to take place | ||
| 2010 | NILT 2010 data (643KB) | NILT 2010 data (4.1MB) | Citation |
| 2009 | NILT 2009 data (525KB) | NILT 2009 data (3.3MB) | Citation |
| 2008 | NILT 2008 data (645KB) | NILT 2008 data (4MB) | Citation |
| 2007 | NILT 2007 data (701KB) | NILT 2007 data (4.4MB) | Citation |
| 2006*** | NILT 2006 data (674KB) | NILT 2006 data (4.3MB) | Citation |
| 2005 | NILT 2005 data (1.9MB) | NILT 2005 (11.6MB) | Citation |
| 2004 | NILT 2004 data (834KB) | NILT 2004 (5.7MB) | Citation |
| 2003 | NILT 2003 data (1.2MB) | NILT 2003 (8.5MB) | Citation |
| 2002 | NILT 2002 data (1.0MB) | NILT 2002 (7.1MB) | Citation |
| 2001 | NILT 2001 data (1.2MB) | NILT 2001 (8.1MB) | Citation |
| 2000** | NILT 2000 data (919KB) | NILT 2000 (5.9MB) | Citation |
| 1999* | NILT 1999 data (1.2MB) | NILT 1999 (8.5MB) | Citation |
| 1998 | NILT 1998 data (1.2MB) | NILT 1998 (7.3MB) | Citation |
| *** The datasets for 2006 exclude TRAVCOLL, TRAVRES, TRAVREL, EECOLL, EERES, EEREL, MEGCOLLA, MEGRESA, MEGRELA, MUSCOLL2, MUSRES2, MUSREL2 due to data irregularities. | |||
| ** The data files for 2000 exclude the Social Capital section of the Community Relations module, and the Welfare Reform module. If you would like to use this data, please contact us | |||
| * The data files for 1999 exclude the Pensions and Pensioners module. If you would like to use this data, please contact us | |||
