Europe resources

Questions on Europe were asked in the 2002 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
Questions on Brexit were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020

Links to questions and ARK resources on Brexit are available here.

ARK Resources

• Political Attitudes in Northern Ireland in a Period of Transition (Research Update 142) by Katy Hayward and Ben Rosher uses data from the 2020 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey.
• European Union? (ARK Feature 4) by Paula Devine and Ann Marie Gray, explores public attitudes to Europe on the 45th anniversary of the UK joining the EU.
• Waking up in a different country - Brexit and Northern Ireland (Research Update 116) by Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Arthur Aughey and Paula Devine, uses data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• A video Waking up in a different country - Brexit and Northern Ireland by Cathy Gormley-Heenan discusses public attitudes to, and expectations of, Brexit, using data form the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Northern Ireland Elections provides background and information on Northern Ireland's European Parliament elections..
• Euro Vision: Attitudes towards the European Union by Sile O'Connor and Lee McGowan (Research Update 19) is based on data from the 2002 Europe module.
• Questions on Europe were also asked in the 1993, 1994 and 1995 Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Surveys, which can be found on Surveys Online.

Links

• There are 27 countries within the European Union.
• Eurostat provides a wide range statistical information on Europe.
• More data about attitudes to and in Europe can be found through the Eurobarometer survey, an ongoing survey on attitudes and lifestyles in Europe.
• The European Values Survey is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics and society. The Survey is carried out every nine years.
• The European Social Survey is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted every two years across Europe since 2001.
• UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank hosted by King's College London providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK, and is funded until 2025.

Maintained by Paula Devine