1989-1996 Northern Ireland Social Attitudes (NISA) Survey: National Centre for Social Research
1992 Northern Ireland Election Survey
1998-2012 Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey: ARK
1998a Northern Ireland Referendum and Election Survey: John Curtice, University of Strathclyde; Bernadette C. Hayes, Queen's University Belfast; Geoffrey Evans, Nuffield College Oxford; Lizanne Dowds, Queen's University Belfast
2003a Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Survey: Bernadette C. Hayes, Queen's University; Belfast Geoffrey Evans, Nuffield College; Oxford Lizanne Dowds, University of Ulster; Paul Mitchell, London School of Economics

Both the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey which ran from 1989 to 1996 and the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey which began in 1998 monitored attitudes to community relations. Many of the same questions were asked year on year and the results are summarised and presented here as a time-series.
Carried out immediately after the Northern Ireland Assembly elections, the Northern Ireland Referendum and Election Study (1998) and the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Study (2003) were designed to measure attitudes and behaviour at those elections.

In 2004, with funding from The Nuffield Foundation, a specialist dataset was created, pooling subsets of data from the surveys highlighted above.

• Identity
  
• Equality
  
• Contact and mixing
  
• Perceptions of relations
• Perceptions of prejudice
  
• Constitutional issues
• Political Trust
  
• Cultural issues

Questionnaires for the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey are available from the UK Data Service.

Questionnaires for the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey are available from the Life and Times website, and also from the UK Data Service.

The questionnaires for the 1998 Northern Ireland Referendum and Election Survey and the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Survey are available on SOL.

The pooled dataset is available in SPSS file format. Please note that the data should be weighted using the WTFACTOR variable.

Data for the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey are available from the UK Data Service. Tables of results for the NISA Surveys are available on SOL.

Data for the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey are available from the Life and Times website, and also from the UK Data Service.

Data for the 1998 Referendum and Election Survey are available on SOL and also from the UK Data Service.

Data for the 2003 Assembly Election Survey are available on SOL and also from the UK Data Service.

Hayes, Bernadette C, McAllister, Ian and Dowds, Lizanne, In Search of the Middle Ground: Integrated Education and Northern Ireland Politics, Research Update 42, ARK

McAllister, Ian, Driven to disaffection: Religious Independents in Northern Ireland, Research Update 41, ARK