The 2003 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey was carried out between 24 June and 8 July 2003. 902 sixteen-year-olds took part.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2024. You can link to tables and charts of results for each question. 

• Background
• Community Relations
• Cross Community Contact
• Education
• Identity
• Social Capital

The technical information is available in PDF format.

A leaflet providing a summary of results from the 2003 survey is available in PDF format (961KB).

ARK Research Update 43 - Cross community integration and mixing: does it make a difference? by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian Robinson - uses data from 2003-2005 Young Life and Times Surveys.

ARK Research Update 28 - Us and Them?, by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz, focuses on community relations using data from the 2003 Young Life and Times Survey.

ARK Research Update 25 - School's out, by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz, explores the attitudes of 16 year olds towards the 11+ and school in general, using data from the 2003 Young Life and Times Survey.

Voices behind the statistics report - a participatory research project undertaken by ARK and the National Children's Bureau, funded by OFMDFM.

All work that uses or refers to the 2003 Young Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Young Life and Times Survey, 2003 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/ylt [distributor], December 2003.

Maintained by Paula Devine