Fieldwork for the 2016 survey was carried out between 12th September and 22nd December 2016. 1,208 adults aged 18 years or over were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2016. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Abortion
• Community/Good Relations
• Minority Ethnic People
• Politics
• Respect

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2016 Life and Times Survey, especially The Executive Office, and the Economic and Social Research Council. We would particularly like to thank all the respondents to the survey.

The 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Social Work, Queen's University Belfast.

• Attitudes to minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland, 2005-2016 (Research Update 122) by Paula Devine
• Bonfires, flags, identity and cultural traditions (Research Update 119) by Gillian Robinson and Paula Devine
• Waking up in another country - Brexit and Northern Ireland (Research Update 116) by Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Arthur Aughey and Paula Devine
• Waking up in another country - Brexit and Northern Ireland - by Cathy Gormley-Heenan
• Attitudes to abortion in Northern Ireland (Research Update 115) by Ann Marie Gray

All work that uses or refers to the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2016 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2017

 

Maintained by Paula Devine.