Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2012: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Teaching Dataset

<p>The <em>Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey</em> (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.<br>The main aims of the NILT series are:</p><ul>
<li>to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;</li>
<li>to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;</li>
<li>to facilitate academic social policy analysis;</li>
<li>to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland.</li>
</ul><p>NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data">Young Life and Times Survey</a> (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data">Kids' Life and Times</a> (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.</p><p>NILT also forms part of the <a title="International Social Survey Programme" href="http://www.issp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Social Survey Programme</a> (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040#!/access-data">open access teaching datasets</a> were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia.</p><p>

</p><p>Further information about the series may be found on the ARK <a title="NILT" href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NILT</a> webpage.</p> The <I>Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2012: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Teaching Dataset</I> is part of a suite of teaching and learning resources created as part of a Higher Education Academy (HEA) strategic project focusing on teaching research methods. The project <a href="https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines/Soc_Sci/TRM_ProjectReports_2012-13-1" title="Learning by numbers: new open educational resources for teaching quantitative methods">Learning by numbers: new open educational resources for teaching quantitative methods</a> involved the creation of new teaching datasets from two major surveys focusing on Northern Ireland, with accompanying 'student-friendly' documentation and teaching guidelines. Specifically, two teaching datasets were created using NILT 2012 (see also SN 7547, which covers politics and good relations) as well as a time-series teaching dataset drawing on the 2003-2012 <I>Young Life and Times</I> (YLT) surveys (see SN 7548). Documentation combining an edited technical report and codebook accompanies the teaching datasets. This documentation includes details of all the variables included in the teaching datasets as well as a summary technical report, with the main issues outlines in accessible language, for example, research design, sampling and response rates. Teaching guidelines drawing upon the particular variables included in the datasets are also available. <br>
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This dataset focuses on public attitudes to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues in Northern Ireland. It is based on NILT 2012, and adapted for the purposes of this project. Some variables have been constructed and/or simplified for this teaching dataset – notes are provided in the codebook. While the teaching datasets contains the same total number of respondents, they are intended for teaching purposes only; it is advisable to use the original NILT 2012 study (see SN 7408) for research. Further information about the teaching datasets may be found on the <a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/teaching/teachqm.html" title="ARK Teaching datasets: Learning by numbers">ARK Teaching datasets: Learning by numbers</a> webpage.<br>
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<p>《<em>北爱尔兰生活与时态调查</em>》（Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey，NILT）系列始于1998年，是此前于1996年停办的北爱尔兰社会态度系列的继任者。<br>NILT系列的主要目标如下：</p><ul><li>监测北爱尔兰公众对社会政策和政治议题的态度；</li><li>提供关键社会政策领域态度的时间序列数据；</li><li>为学术界的社会政策分析提供支持；</li><li>为北爱尔兰更广泛的用户群体提供关于公众态度的免费获取资源。</li></ul><p>NILT最初有一个同伴系列——《<em>青年生活与时态调查</em>》（Young Life and Times Survey，YLT），该系列同样始于1998年，但其方法于2003年发生改变，此后每年单独开展。《<em>儿童生活与时态调查</em>》（Kids' Life and Times，KLT）针对P7儿童（10-11岁），也是YLT和NILT同一套调查的一部分。</p><p>NILT还属于国际社会调查项目（International Social Survey Programme，ISSP）的一部分，尽管并非每年参与。遗憾的是，由于资金问题，NILT在2011年未开展，但YLT在该年正常进行；NILT于2012年恢复（SN 7408）。此外，访问研究知识（Access Research Knowledge，ARK）利用NILT不同年份的数据创建了多个开放获取教学数据集，涵盖女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋及跨性别者（Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender，LGBT）问题、政治与社区关系、老龄化态度与年龄歧视、痴呆症等不同主题。</p><p>更多关于该系列的信息可在ARK的《<em>NILT</em>》网页上找到。</p>《<I>北爱尔兰生活与时态调查2012：女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋及跨性别者问题教学数据集</I>》是高等教育学院（Higher Education Academy，HEA）一项聚焦定量研究方法教学的战略项目所创建的教学资源套件的一部分。该项目《<a href="https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines/Soc_Sci/TRM_ProjectReports_2012-13-1" title="数字学习：定量方法教学的新型开放教育资源">数字学习：定量方法教学的新型开放教育资源</a>》（Learning by numbers: new open educational resources for teaching quantitative methods）涉及利用北爱尔兰两项主要调查创建新的教学数据集，并配有“学生友好型”文档和教学指南。具体而言，使用NILT 2012创建了两个教学数据集（另见SN 7547，涵盖政治与良好关系），以及一个基于2003-2012年《<em>青年生活与时态调查</em>》（YLT）的时间序列教学数据集（见SN 7548）。教学数据集配有整合了编辑后的技术报告和代码本的文档，其中包含教学数据集中所有变量的详细信息以及一份技术报告摘要——主要问题以通俗易懂的语言概述，例如研究设计、抽样和回应率等。针对数据集中特定变量的教学指南也可供使用。<br><br>本数据集聚焦北爱尔兰公众对女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋及跨性别者（LGBT）问题的态度，基于NILT 2012改编而成，以满足本项目的需求。部分变量为该教学数据集而构建和/或简化——代码本中提供了相关说明。尽管教学数据集包含相同数量的受访者，但它仅用于教学目的；建议使用原始NILT 2012研究（见SN 7408）进行研究。关于教学数据集的更多信息可在《<a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/teaching/teachqm.html" title="ARK教学数据集：数字学习">ARK教学数据集：数字学习</a>》（ARK Teaching datasets: Learning by numbers）网页上找到。<br><br>