Fieldwork for the 2004 survey was carried out between October 2004 and mid February 2005. 1800 adults were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2004. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Community/Good Relations
• Countryside and farming
• Grandparenting and family life
• Men's Life and Times
• Politics
• Religious Observance

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

• Atlantic Philanthropies
• Community Relations Council (via EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland 2000-2004)
• Economic and Social Research Council
• Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
• Ulster Farmers' Union
  

The NILT team works with subject specialists to obtain funding for a specific module and to develop the relevant questions. In 2004, we were very pleased to work with:

• Colin Fowler (The Men's Project): Men's Life and Times
• Professor Eileen Evason (Professor Emeritus, University of Ulster): Grandparenting and family life
• Dr Sally Shortall (Gibson Institute for Land, Food and the Environment, Queen's University Belfast): Countryside and farming
• Dr Patricia Lundy (School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster) and Dr Mark McGovern (Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Edgehill College): truth, justice and transition questions within the Political Attitudes module
• Dr Claire Mitchell (School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast): Religious Observance

The following Research Updates have been produced using figures from the 2004 survey. These are available in PDF format.

• 'A green and pleasant land?' Public attitudes to the countryside, by Sally Shortall
  Research Update 47, November 2006 (598 KB)
• A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland?, by Patricia Lundy and Mark McGovern
  Research Update 46, November 2006 (122 KB)
• Raising Grandparents, by Eileen Evason, Lizanne Dowds and Katrina Lloyd
  Research Update 39, September 2005 (188 KB)
• Mystery Man, by Paula Devine
  Research Update 38, June 2005 (190 KB)

All work that uses or refers to the 2004 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2004 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2005.

Maintained by Paula Devine.