Fieldwork for the 2005 survey was carried out between October 2005 and mid January 2006. 1200 adults were interviewed. The modules included were:

• Gender and Family Roles
• Complementary Medicine and Health Issues
• Democratic Participation
• Political Attitudes
• Attitudes to Minority Ethnic People
• Community Relations
• Background information on the respondents

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

• Department for Education and Learning
• Economic and Social Research Council
• Electoral Commission
• Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
• Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister

The NILT team works with subject specialists to obtain funding for a specific module and to develop the relevant questions. In 2005, we were very pleased to work with:

• Dr Chris Gilligan (School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster): Attitudes to Minority Ethnic People ·
• Professor Suzanne McDonough (School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster) and Professor Dave Baxter (School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago): Complementary Medicine and Health Issues
  

The following Research Updates have been produced using figures from the 2005 survey. These are available in PDF format.

• Racial Attitudes in Northern Ireland, by Chris Gilligan and Katrina Lloyd
  Research Update 44, May 2006 (109 KB)

• Complementary and alternative medicine: Patterns of use in Northern Ireland by Suzanne McDonough, Paula Devine and David Baxter
  Research Update 50, February 2007 (214 KB)

All work that uses or refers to the 2005 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2005 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2006.

The technical information is available in PDF format.

Maintained by Paula Devine.