Young Life and Times Survey 2017

Index to Results 2017

The 2017 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey was carried out between December 2017 and January 2018. 1198 sixteen-year-olds took part.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2017. You can link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Community Relations
• Community Safety and Perception of Paramlitary Influence
• Cross Community Contact
• Education (including School Bullying, Shared Education and CRED)
• Family
• Identity
• Minority Ethnic Groups
• Rights and Perceptions (Police Stop and Search experiences)
• Volunteering

Publications

A sense of belonging. Research Update by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz

Volunteering Matters: Young People's Perspectives Research Update by Martina McKnight and Dirk Schubotz

A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees (Research Update 124) by Lucy Michael and Paula Devine [covering YLT and NILT data]

The 'usual suspects'? Young people's experiences of police stop and search powers in Northern Ireland. Research Update by John Topping and Dirk Schubotz.

 

A leaflet providing a summary of results from the 2017 survey is available in PDF format (2.9MB).

The technical information is available in PDF format.

 

Citation

All work that uses or refers to the 2017 Young Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:

ARK. Young Life and Times Survey, 2017 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/ylt [distributor], May 2018.

 

Part-funded by The Executive Office (TEO), The Department of Education (DE), The Department of Justice (DoJ), Volunteer Now and Queen's University Belfast.