Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 1999

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.The main aims of the NILT series are: to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland; to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas; to facilitate academic social policy analysis; to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland. NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.NILT also forms part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several open access teaching datasets were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia. Further information about the series may be found on the ARK NILT webpage.

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The dataset records the responses of 2200 adults to the 1999 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. Questions are grouped into 'modules' and this dataset includes questions on background, community relations, political attitudes, education, genetics research, social inequalities (this module is part of ISSP and is also archived in the German Archive (ZA)), transport. Not all respondents were asked every module. Although the survey included a module on pensions, it is not in this dataset. Standard Measures ISCO codes, Registrar General Social Class.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4210-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=b58c2666c442ff5333aa84eec5f5f6ece37f6adc9fa65febe10b22391d02ac2f
Provenance
Creator Dowds, L., Queen's University of Belfast, Centre for Social Research; Devine, P., Queen's University of Belfast, Centre for Social Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2000
Funding Reference Nuffield Foundation; Economic and Social Research Council; Wellcome Trust; Royal Irish Academy, Social Science Research Council; Northern Ireland. Central Community Relations Unit
Rights Copyright Access Research Knowledge (ARK) Northern Ireland; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Northern Ireland