Fieldwork for the 2021 survey was carried out between 12th October 2021 and 22nd December 2021.

1,397 adults aged 18 years or over were interviewed. The modules included were:

• Respect
• Minority Ethnic People
• Good Relations
• Mental Health
• COVID-19
• Income and poverty
• Criminal Justice System
• Political Attitudes
• Community Safety and Perceptions of Paramilitary Influence
• Background

• Questionnaires
• Dataset
• Technical report

The NILT team would like to thank our colleagues and funders who contributed to the 2021 Life and Times Survey, in particular, Department of Justice, Economic and Social Research Council, Office of the Mental Health Champion, Police Ombudsman's Office, Public Health Agency, Public Prosecution Service, The Executive Office, Ulster University, and University of Ohio. We would especially like to thank all the respondents to the survey.

The 2021 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Social Work, Queen's University Belfast.

• Political Attitudes in Northern Ireland after Brexit and under the Protocol (Research Update 147) by Katy Hayward, Milena Komarova and Ben Rosher
• The Other Division in Northern Ireland: public attitudes to poverty, economic hardship and social security (Research Update 146) by Sabrina Bunyan, Mark Simpson, Goretti Horgan and Ann Marie Gray
• Attitudes to Mental Health and Suicide in Northern Ireland (Research Update 145) by Siobhan O'Neill, Margaret McLafferty and Paula Devine

All work that uses or refers to the 2021 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2021 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/nilt [distributor], May 2022