Young Life and Times Survey: Index to Results 2025

The 2025 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey was carried out between 16 April and 16 May 2025. 2129 sixteen year-olds took part.

Click on the topics below to see all the questions asked on that topic in 2025. You can then link to tables and charts of results for each question.

Background
Community Relations
Community Safety and Perceptions of Paramilitary Influence
Cross Community Contact
Environment and Global Issues
Education
Family
Gender Based Violence
Health and Wellbeing
Identity
Minority Ethnic Groups
Respect
Social Media

Publications

Summary of YLT results 2025
Clean and green: Young people's attitudes to environmental goals, by Jonny Hanson (Research Update 164)
Screens, Safety and Social Media, by Michelle Butler, Dirk Schubotz and Martina McKnight (report)
Further details can be found on the technical notes for the survey.

Citation

All work that uses or refers to the 2025 Young Life and Times Survey should acknowledge it using the following bibliographic citation:

ARK. Young Life and Times Survey, 2025 [computer file]. ARK www.ark.ac.uk/ylt [distributor], September 2025.