Clicking on one of the years below will display a list of all the modules asked in that year:

• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003

Clicking on a module title below will bring you to a list of all the questions asked on that topic over all years.  

• Community Relations - asked in 2003 - 2012
• Cross Community Contact - asked in 2003 - 2012
• Education - asked in 2003 - 2010, 2012
• Environment and global issues - asked in 2006
• Family - asked in 2006 - 2012
• Health (including mental health) - asked in 2004 - 2008, 2011
• Identity - asked in 2003 - 2012
• Leisure and Play - asked in 2007 and 2010
• Mental Health and Self-harm - asked in 2008 and 2009
• Minority Ethnic Groups - asked in 2004 and 2007 - 2012
• Politics - asked in 2004 - 2007, 2010, 2011
• Poverty - asked in 2007
• Pressures and Influences - asked in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008
• Rights and Perceptions - asked in 2007, 2009 - 2012
• Sexual Health - asked in 2011
• Sexual Risks - asked in 2010
• Social Capital - asked in 2003 - 2012
• Background - asked in 2003 - 2012
• Volunteering - asked in 2009
• Young Carers - asked in 2010

A leaflet giving a summary of results is available for each year (in PDF format):

• 2012 (818kb)
• 2011 (1.7mb)
• 2010 (918kb)
• 2009 (700kb)
• 2008 (254kb)
• 2007 (656kb)
• 2006 (355kb)
• 2005 (2.56mb)
• 2004 (802kb)
• 2003 (961kb)

 

Publications

• Into the Mix (Research Update 83), by Paula Devine
• Shared Education: Views of Children and Young People (Research Update 82), by Katrina Lloyd
• Messed up? Sexual lifestyles of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland (Research Update 80), by Dirk Schubotz
• Loneliness in Northern Ireland Adolescents (Research Update 81), by Siobhan Murphy and Mark Shevlin
• No more ‘us and them’ for 16 year olds? (Research Update 79), by Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson
• Young Carers too. (Research Update 76), by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd
• Playscapes at 16. (Research Update 74), by Jacqueline O'Loughlin, Brenda Stevenson and Dirk Schubotz
• Youth Volunteering: Making a Difference to Community Relations (Research Update 69), by Christine Irvine and Dirk Schubotz
• Attitudes to Difference. Young people's attitudes to and experiences of contact with people from different minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland, a joined project report by NCB NI and YLT
• The mental and emotional health of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland. Evidence form the Young Life and Times survey, by Dirk Schubotz. A report for the Patient and Client Council.
• Mental and emotional health of 16-year olds (Research Update 67), by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian McMullen
• Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine (eds): Young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The past cannot be changed, but the future can be developed. (edited book)
• Getting away from the hurt? (Research Update 60), by Dirk Schubotz
• Young Carers (Research Update 56), by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, motivation, mandate. Final Project Report, by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, motivation, mandate (Research Update 55), by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• The environment: am I bovvered? (Research Update 49) by Paula Devine
• Participation, happiness and achievement: the impact of poverty on the school experiences of 16-year olds, by Dirk Schubotz, David Simpson and Alex Tennant, uses data from the 2006 YLT survey, and is published by Save the Children (253 kb).
• School Bullying in Northern Ireland - It hasn’t gone away you know (Research Update 48), by Stephanie Burns
• Being part and parcel of the school by Dirk Schubotz and Ruth Sinclair
• To stay or not to stay: that is the question (ARK Research Update 45), by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine
• Cross community integration and mixing: does it make a difference? (Research Update 43), by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian Robinson
• Drinking, Smoking, Drugs and Sexual Intercourse - Education and Influences for Young People in Northern Ireland (Research Update 37), by Sarah Hannaford
• What Now? (Research Update 34), by Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine
• Stress at Sixteen (Research Update 33), by Ed Cairns and Katrina Lloyd
• Young People's Attitudes to Politics and Elections by Dirk Schubotz
• Voices Behind the Statistics, by Shirley Ewart and Dirk Schubotz, with Francis Abbs, Damian Harris, Laura Montgomery, Ciaran Moynagh, Gavin Maguire and Scott Livingstone
• Changing Times - or are they? (Research Update 30), by Deirdre Fullerton
• Us and Them? (Research Update 28), by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz - Launch
• School's Out? (Research Update 25), by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz

In 2007, we ran an essay writing competition along side the survey, based on the title 'The Life and Times of Young People in Northern Ireland'. Further information, results and essays are available, click here.

Maintained by Dirk Schubotz