Fieldwork for the 2009 survey was carried out between 1 October 2009 and 19 December 2009. 1228 adults were interviewed. The modules included were:

• Community Relations
• Attitudes to Minority Ethnic People
• Attitudes to Disability
• Political Attitudes
• Leisure Time and Sport
• Background information on the respondents

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2009 Life and Times Survey, especially the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, the Office for Disability Issues, and the Economic and Social Research Council. We would particularly like to thank all the respondents to the survey.

The 2009 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast.

The following publications use data from the 2009 survey, and is available in PDF format.

• An Age of Change? Community Relations in Northern Ireland, Paula Devine, Gráinne Kelly and Gillian Robinson
  Research Update 72, February 2011
  
• Get up and go!, by Katie Liston and Paula Devine
  Research Update 70, October 2010
  
• Men and physical activity, by Paula Devine
  Men in Northern Ireland 6, June 2010

All work that uses or refers to the 2009 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2009 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2010.

The technical information is available in PDF format.

Maintained by Paula Devine.