• Results for 2003 onwards

  From 2003 onwards, Young Life and Times will be a record of the attitudes of 16 year olds only.

  As well as tables of results, young people's free responses and comments are also available linked to the appropriate question. If respondents referred to a number of issues their statements appear linked to all related questions. Some comments were edited to improve readability or to assure annonymity of the respondents. Generally, editing is kept to a minimum.

• Find out more about our Knowledge Exchange project with Brook NI on sexual risks among young people

Results for 1998-2000

From 1998 to 2000, Young Life and Times sought the views of all 12 to 17 year olds living in the same household as an adult respondent to the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey.

 

Further details can be found in the technical notes of the survey.

 

Publications

Edited Books

• Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine (Eds.) (2014). Not so different. Teenage attitudes across a decade of change in Northern Ireland [Details here]
• Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine (Eds.) (2008). Young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The past cannot be changed, but the future can be developed [Details here]

ARK Research Updates

• Citizenship practices and political literacy in young people. (Research Update 129) by Alan Smith, Una O'Connor, Jessica Bates and Matt Milikan
• A sense of belonging. (Research Update 126) by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz
• Volunteering Matters: Young People's Perspectives (Research Update 125) by Martina McKnight and Dirk Schubotz
• A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees (Research Update 124) by Lucy Michael and Paula Devine [covering YLT and NILT data]
• The ‘usual suspects’? Young people’s experiences of police stop and search powers in Northern Ireland (Research Update 120) by John Topping and Dirk Schubotz
• Culture Matters: Young People's Perspectives (Research Update 118) by Grace Kelly and Martina McKnight
• In their own words. (Research Update 117) by Grace Kelly
• Taking Stock (Research Update 111) by Dirk Schubotz
• A question of sport (Research Update 107) by Dirk Schubotz, Katrina Lloyd and Martina McKnight
• Young people's rights and their sense of belonging (Research Update102) by Dirk Schubotz
• Young people’s experiences of integration and segregation in Northern Ireland (Research Update 99) by Helena Stockinger
• Children's and young people's awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards autism in Northern Ireland (Research Update 96), by Karola Dillenburger, Lynne McKerr and Julie-Ann Jordan
• Who can I talk to? Self harm and seeking help among 16 year olds: Changes between 2008 and 2013 (Research Update 96), by Mark McCann
• Belonging and Alienation in the New Northern Ireland (Research Update 93), by Katy Hayward, Lizanne Dowds and Colin Shaw
• Financial Wellbeing of Young People (Research Update 91), by Paula Devine
• Into the Mix (Research Update 83), by Paula Devine
• Shared Education: Views of Children and Young People (Research Update 82), by Katrina Lloyd
• Messed up? Sexual Lifestyles of 16-year Olds in Northern Ireland (Research Update 80), by Dirk Schubotz
• Loneliness in Northern Ireland Adolescents (Research Update 81), by Siobhan Murphy and Mark Shevlin
• No More ‘Us and Them’ for 16 year Olds? (Research Update 79), by Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson
• Young Carers too. (Research Update 76), by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd
• Playscapes at 16. (Research Update 74), by Jacqueline O'Loughlin, Brenda Stevenson and Dirk Schubotz
• Youth Volunteering: Making a Difference to Community Relations (Research Update 69), by Christine Irvine and Dirk Schubotz
• Mental and Emotional Health of 16-year Olds (Research Update 67), by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian McMullen
• Getting away from the Hurt? (Research Update 60), by Dirk Schubotz
• Young Carers (Research Update 56), by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, Motivation, Mandate (Research Update 55), by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• The Environment: Am I Bovvered? (Research Update 49), by Paula Devine
• School Bullying in Northern Ireland - It Hasn’t Gone away You Know (Research Update 48), by Stephanie Burns
• To stay or not to stay: that is the question (ARK Research Update 45), by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine
• Cross-community Integration and Mixing: Does it Make a Difference? (Research Update 43), by Dirk Schubotz and Gillian Robinson
• Drinking, Smoking, Drugs and Sexual Intercourse - Education and Influences for Young People in Northern Ireland (Research Update 37), by Sarah Hannaford
• What Now? (Research Update 34), by Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine
• Stress at Sixteen (Research Update 33), by Ed Cairns and Katrina Lloyd
• Changing Times - Or Are They? (Research Update 30), by Deirdre Fullerton
• Us and Them? (Research Update 28), by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz - Launch
• School's Out? (Research Update 25), by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz

Research Reports

• Young People and Sport in Northern Ireland. Evidence from the 2015 YLT and KLT surveys. Belfast: Sport NI. [external site]
• Attitudes to Language Learning and Internationalisation. Evidence from 2015 YLT. By Claire McCartan and Dirk Schubotz
• Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) and Homophobic and Transphobic Name Calling. Evidence from the 2014 YLT survey by Dirk Schubotz
• Community Relations, Equality and Diversity Education (CRED). Findings from the 2014 YLT survey by Dirk Schubotz
• Community Relations, Equality and Diversity in Education (CRED): Findings from the 2012 Young Life and Times Survey by Paula Devine
  
• The mental and emotional health of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland. Evidence form the Young Life and Times survey, by Dirk Schubotz. A report for the Patient and Client Council.
• Attitudes to Difference. Young people's attitudes to and experiences of contact with people from different minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland, a joined project report by NCB NI and YLT
• Cross-Community Schemes: Participation, motivation, mandate. Final Project Report, by Dirk Schubotz and Claire McCartan with Aaron McDaid, Bróna McIntyre, Felicity McKee, Maria McManus, Sinead O’Kelly, Ashleigh Roberts and Laura Whinnery
• Participation, happiness and achievement: the impact of poverty on the school experiences of 16-year olds, by Dirk Schubotz, David Simpson and Alex Tennant, uses data from the 2006 YLT survey, and is published by Save the Children (253 kb).
• Being part and parcel of the school by Dirk Schubotz and Ruth Sinclair
• Young People's Attitudes to Politics and Elections, by Dirk Schubotz
• Voices Behind the Statistics, by Shirley Ewart and Dirk Schubotz, with Francis Abbs, Damian Harris, Laura Montgomery, Ciaran Moynagh, Gavin Maguire and Scott Livingstone

Maintained by Dirk Schubotz