The 2005 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey was carried out between August and October 2005. 819 sixteen-year-olds took part.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2005. You can link to tables and charts of results for each question.

• Background
• Community Relations
• Cross Community Contact
• Education
• Health
• Identity
• Politics
• Pressures and Influences
• Social Capital

The technical information is available in PDF format.

A leaflet providing a summary of results from the 2005 survey is available in PDF format (2.56MB).

ARK Research Update 48 - School Bullying in Northern Ireland - It hasn't gone away you know, by Stephanie Burns - includes questions on bullying from the 1998 and 2005 Young Life and Times Surveys.

ARK Research Update 45 - To stay or not to stay: that is the question, by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine - focuses on Educational Maintenance Allowance using data from the 2005 Young Life and Times Survey.

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.

All work that uses or refers to the 2005 Young Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:
ARK. Young Life and Times Survey, 2005 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/ylt [distributor], December 2005.

Funded by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust

Maintained by Paula Devine