Young Life and Times Survey, 2020-2021

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>The <em>Young Life and Times Survey</em> (YLT) originally began as a companion survey to the <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000040">Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey</a> (NILT) series. It surveyed young people aged 12-17 living in the households of adults interviewed for NILT, and YLT ran alongside it from 1998-2000. Following an evaluation in 2001, the YLT series recommenced in 2003 (see SN 4826) using a completely different methodology and independent of the adult NILT. This new YLT survey uses Child Benefit records as a sampling frame.</p><p>The aims of the YLT series are to:</p><ul>
<li>monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;</li>
<li>provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;</li>
<li>facilitate academic social policy analysis; provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland;</li>
<li>give a voice to young people.</li>
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</p><p>An open access time-series teaching dataset has been created from the 2003-2012 YLTs - see SN 7548.</p><p>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>Further information about the YLT, including publications, may be found on the Access Research Knowledge (ARK) <a title="Young Life and Times Survey" href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/ylt/index.html">YLT</a> webpages.</p><br><p></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoBodyText"><span style="font-weight: bold;">YLT 2020-21</span></p><p class="x_x_x_MsoBodyText">The YLT survey has been conducted annually since its inception. However, the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 meant that the survey field originally planned for the last quarter of 2020 had to be postponed to May 2021.&nbsp;<span>All 16-year-olds who celebrated their 16th birthday in April, May and June 2021 were invited to take part.&nbsp;</span></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p></p>
<p class="x_MsoBodyText"><span>In 2020-21 the following topics were included in the survey: </span></p><ul><li><span>Background; </span></li><li><span>Community Relations (including minority ethnic groups) - funded by the Executive Office (TEO previously the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister); </span></li><li><span>Coercive Control – funded by Northern Health and Social Care Trust (NHSCT) and the Public Health Agency (PHA); </span></li><li><span>COVID-19 - funded by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY); </span></li><li><span>Safety and Attitudes to Paramilitaries – funded by the Department of Justice (DoJ); </span></li><li><span>Shared Education and Community Relations, Equality and Diversity Education – funded by the Department of Education (DE); </span></li><li><span>Mental Health – funded by Ohio University HCOM; </span></li><li><span>Politics funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant held at QUB.</span><span></span><span></span></li></ul>