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1. Are you male or female?
2. How many years have you lived in Northern Ireland?
4. Would you describe the place where you live as
5. To which ethnic group do you consider you belong? (recoded)
6.  Do you consider yourself to be a member of a minority ethnic community?
7. What have you been doing since October 2010?
8. What do you think you will be doing in two years time, in October 2012?
9.  What type of school do you attend? If you have left school, what type of sch
10. Would you describe your school as
11.  Do you currently live with your parents, including adoptive parents?
12. How well off do you think your family is financially?
13. To what extent has the recent economic crisis (
14. Do you have a long-standing illness, disability or infirmity? By long-standi
15. Does this illness or disability limit your activities in any way?
16. Which of the following statements applies best to you?
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Watc
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Go t
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Go o
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Read
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Atte
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Get
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Play
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? List
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Take
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Spen
17. How often do you do each of the following activities in your free time? Othe
In the box below, please write what leisure activity you would choose to spend t
18. Have you ever been asked your opinion by any of the following people about s
19. Please say how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:Chil
19. Please say how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:Youn
19. Please say how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:The
19. Please say how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:Ever
19. Please say how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:Play
20. How would you assess the range of leisure time facilities available to you i
21. To what extent do the following factors restrict you from taking part in pla
22. If the government had extra money available for play and leisure for young p
23. Have you ever had caring responsibilities?
24. Is there anyone LIVING WITH YOU who is sick, disabled or elderly whom you pe
25. What about people NOT LIVING WITH YOU, do you personally provide some regula
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your mother
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your father
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your brother
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your sister
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your grandmother
26. Please tell us who you care for. Your grandfather
26. Please tell us who you care for. Somebody else
27. Taking account of all the help you give, including travelling time, about ho
28. And on how many days per week do you usually provide care?
29. How long have you been caring for or helping this person?
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Washing the person you care for
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Dressing the person you care fo
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Helping someone to get to and u
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Cooking
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Cleaning
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Watching over someone
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Managing medication
30. What kind of caring tasks do you have to do? Other
31. Have you told anyone outside your family about your caring role?
31. If yes, who have you told [re-coded]
32. Do you feel that the caring that you do is private and should not be spoken
33. Does your family feel that the caring that you do is private and should not
34. Do the people you care for receive any further support from any of the follo
35. Everyone
36. Do you know what the letters
37. If yes, please say, what it is.
38. In general do you think that young people are judged negatively just because
39. And have you ever been treated with disrespect because you are a young perso
40. Have you ever experienced the following things because you are a young perso
41. Have you ever been standing with friends on the street and told to move on?
42. And who told you to move on? Police
42. And who told you to move on? Resident
42. And who told you to move on? Community representative
42. And who told you to move on? Paramilitary representative
42. And who told you to move on? Other
42. And who told you to move on? Other (Please write in) [recoded]
43. Please state here how this made you feel.
44. How do you feel the media portrays young people?
45. What do you think could be done to improve attitudes to young people?
46. Have you ever heard about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
47. Have you ever heard about the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Dis
48. As far as you are aware, who is the current Commissioner for Children and Yo
49. And what do you think the Commissioner does? Looks after children when they
49. And what do you think the Commissioner does? Is an independent watchdog for
49. And what do you think the Commissioner does? Working for government and resp
49. And what do you think the Commissioner does? I don
50. The Commissioner has a duty to let children and young people know about thei
51. Part of the Commissioner
52. Northern Ireland has its own devolved government at Stormont. In general, ho
53. What do you think has been the effect of the Stormont government on children
54. Do you think any adult has ever tried to groom you? It does not matter wheth
55. What age were you when this first happened? [recoded]
56. What age was the person who first tried to groom you?
57. And was this person:
58. How did this adult first make contact with you?
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? I stopped contact with the
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? The person asked me to do
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? I exchanged sexual texts/e
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? I sent them sexual images
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? I met them and we had face
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? We started a romantic rela
59. Which of these statements describe what happened? Other
60. Has anyone ever given you alcohol, solvents or drugs and then taken advantag
61. What age were you when this first happened? [recoded]
62. Have you ever been offered any of the following things in return for having
63. What age were you when someone first offered you something in return for doi
64. What age was the person who first offered you something in return for doing
65. And was this person:
66. How did you first come into contact with this person?
67. Did you ever tell a parent or anyone in a position of authority that this ha
68. Have you ever taken part in any kind of sexual activity because someone thre
69. Is there anything else you would like to tell us about the risks that young
70. Would you describe your area as
71. Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular religion?
72. If yes, which?
73. Which of these best describes the way you think of yourself?
74. And do you see yourself as:
75. What about relations between Protestants and Catholics? Would you say they a
76. And what about in 5 years time? Do you think relations between Protestants a
77. Do you think that religion will always make a difference to the way people f
78. If you had a choice, would you prefer to live in a neighbourhood with people
79. And if you were looking for a job, would you prefer a workplace with people
80. And if you were deciding where to send your children to school, would you pr
81. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Every child
81. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Both parent
81. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Parents sho
82. How do you think parents should support their children if they do not live w
Religion catgorised