Fieldwork for the 2018 survey was carried out between 18th September 2018 and 5th February 2019. 1,201 adults aged 18 years or over were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2018. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Abortion
• Community/Good Relations
• Community safety and perceptions of paramilitary influence
• Criminal Justice System
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Issues
• Minority Ethnic People
• Palliative Care
• Politics
• Respect

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2018 Life and Times Survey, in particular, The Executive Office, Department of Justice, Public Health Agency, Police Ombudsman's Office, and Public Prosecution Service. We would especially like to thank all the respondents to the survey.

The 2018 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.

• Changing identities in Northern Ireland (Research Update 138) by Paula Devine
• Attitudes to migrant workers in Northern Ireland: an improving landscape? (Research Update 131) and video by Lucy Michael
• The Missing T: Baselining Attitudes Towards Transgender People in Northern Ireland (Research Update 128) by Gail Neill and Siobhán McAlister

All work that uses or refers to the 2018 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2018 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2019

 

Maintained by Paula Devine.