Fieldwork for the 2000 survey was carried out between October and December 2000. 1,800 adults were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2000. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.The modules included were:

• Background information
• Community/Good Relations*
• Environment
• Men's Life and Times
• Politics
• Work Orientations
• Welfare Reform*

* There are no plans to put tables of results for the Social Capital section of the Community Relations module, or the Welfare Reform module on the web site, as the data are quite complicated. However, you can look at the questions asked in this module in the main questionnaire. If you would like to obtain the data, please contact us.

• Questionaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The following Research Updates have been produced using figures from the 2000 survey. These are available in PDF format.

• The Church of Ireland in Northern Ireland: A decade of change?, by James Mehaffey
  Research Update Number 23, May 2004 (121KB)
• Catholics in Northern Ireland: Ambivalence Rules?, by Brian Lennon
  Research Update Number 22, May 2004 (193KB)
• Presbyterians in Northern Ireland: Living in a Society of Transition, by Duncan Morrow
  Research Update Number 21, May 2004 (137KB)
• Being Green: Attitudes to the Environment, by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd
  Research Update 15, January 2003 (165KB)
• Social Activity and Interaction in Northern Ireland, by Brendan Murtagh
  Research Update 10, February 2002 (31 KB)
  
• Men in the Mirror, by Steve Biddulph,
  Research Update 7, June 2001 (25KB)
  

• Department for Social Development
• Community Relations Unit

All work that uses or refers to the 2000 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2000 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2001.