Young Life and Times Survey, 2025

<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>
<p>As in previous years, the sample for the 2025 survey was provided to ARK directly by HMRC. The sample for the 2025 survey included the names and addresses of all young people living in Northern Ireland, and registered on the Child Benefit Register, who celebrated their 16th birthday in January, February and March 2025.</p>