Fieldwork for the 2002 survey was carried out between October and mid January 2003. 1,800 adults were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2002. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background information
• Community/Good Relations
• Europe
• Gender and Family Roles
• Rights of the Child
• Politics
• Women in Politics

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The following Research Updates have been produced using figures from the 2002 survey.

• Women's Hour? by Yvonne Galligan and Lizanne Dowds
  Resarch Update Number 26, February 2004 (226KB)
• What women want? Women and Gender Roles in Northern Ireland, by Ann Marie Gray and Gillian Robinson
  Research Update 24, January 2004 (234KB)
• The Church of Ireland in Northern Ireland: A decade of change?, by James Mehaffey
  Research Update Number 23, May 2004 (121KB)
  
• Attitudes to community relations in Northern Ireland: Grounds for optimism?, by Joanne Hughes
  Research Update 20, November 2003 (249KB)
• Euro Vision: Attitudes towards the European Union, by Síle O'Connor and Lee McGowan
  Research Update 19, October 2003 (173KB)
• What our Politicians Should Know, by Roger Mac Ginty
  Research Update 18, April 2003 (128KB)
  

• Economic and Social Research Council
• University of Ulster
• Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
  

All work that uses or refers to the 2002 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2002 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2003.

Maintained by Paula Devine.