The 2004 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey was carried out between 25 August and 25 September 2004. 824 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
• Health
• Identity
• Pressures and Influence Factors
• Politics
• Social Capital

The technical information is available in PDF format.

A leaflet providing a summary of results from the 2004 survey is available in PDF format (802KB).

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 37 - Drinking, Smoking, Drugs and Sexual Intercourse - Education and Influences for Young People in Northern Ireland, by Sarah Hannaford - focuses on data from the 2004 Young Life and Times Survey.

All work that uses or refers to the 2004 Young Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Young Life and Times Survey, 2004 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/ylt [distributor], January 2006.

Maintained by Paula Devine