Fieldwork for the 2017 survey was carried out between 13th September 2017 and 6th February 2018. 1,203 adults aged 18 years or over were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2017. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Ageing and Ageism
• Armed forces
• Community/Good Relations
• Community safety and perceptions of paramilitary influence
• Minority Ethnic People
• Politics
• Respect

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2017 Life and Times Survey, in particular, The Executive Office, Department of Justice, and Forces in Mind. We would especially like to thank all the respondents to the survey.

The 2017 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.

• A sense of belonging (Research Update 126) by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz
• A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees (Research Update 124) by Lucy Michael and Paula Devine
• 20 years of good relations policy and attitudes (Reseach Update 123) by Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson
• Public Attitudes to the UK Armed Forces in Northern Ireland (Research Update 121) by Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley and Cherie Armour, Margaret McLafferty, Matthew Hall and Jana Ross

All work that uses or refers to the 2017 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2017 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2018

 

Maintained by Paula Devine.