Fieldwork for the 2008 survey was carried out between 1 October 2008 and 27 February 2009. 1,215 adults were interviewed.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2008. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Ageing and Ageism
• Community/Good Relations
• Minority Ethnic People
• Politics
• Religious Observance

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2008 Life and Times Survey, especially the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, the Economic and Social Research Council and The Atlantic Philanthropies.

The following Research Updates have been produced using figures from the 2008 survey. They are available in PDF format.

• Vacant Seats and Empty Pews, by Bernadette C. Hayes and Lizanne Dowds
  Research Update 65, February 2010
  
• All our futures: attitudes to age and ageing in Northern Ireland, by Ann Marie Gray
  Research Update 61, June 2009 (305 kb)

All work that uses or refers to the 2008 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2008 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], June 2009.

Maintained by Paula Devine.