Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey - Issp


International Social Survey Programme.

Each year over 44 countries participate in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in which the same module of questions is asked cross-nationally. Northern Ireland has taken part in this exercise since 1989 via the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey (NISA) until 1996, and then more infrequently via the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT).

Tables of results for ISSP modules are available on the NILT website. In addition, the Surveys Online (SOL) resource within ARK includes results for the NISA surveys, as well as for Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

Note that each module may be run in slightly different years in different countries/regions.

 

ISSP year Module Results    
1989 Work Orientations I Northern Ireland    
1990 Role of Government II Northern Ireland    
1991 Religion I Northern Ireland    
1993 Environment I Northern Ireland    
1994 Family and Changing Gender Roles II Northern Ireland    
1995 National Identity I Northern Ireland    
1996 Role of Government III Northern Ireland    
1998 Religion II Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain
1999 Social Inequality III Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain
2000 Environment II Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain
2001 Social Relations and Support Systems Northern Ireland    
2002 Family and Changing Gender Roles III Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland  
2003 National Identity II Not fielded Republic of Ireland  
2004 Citizenship Not fielded Republic of Ireland  
2005 Work Orientations III Not fielded Republic of Ireland  
2006 Role of Government IV Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain
2007 Leisure Time and Sports Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain
2008 Religion III Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Britain

General information on the ISSP can be found on its website www.issp.org.

The ISSP datasets for all countries can be obtained from GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany, where the datasets from the member countries are assembled. The English-language version of the ISSP section of GESIS is at http://www.gesis.org/en/services/data/survey-data/issp/.


NILT is a freely available resource for anyone interested in attitudes of people in Northern Ireland. There is no charge to use the statistics or data available on this website. However, we are always interested in how the findings are used, and so would be very grateful if you would let us know how you have used them.

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