Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2001

<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>

北爱尔兰生活与时代调查（Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey，缩写NILT）系列始于1998年，其前身是1996年终止的北爱尔兰社会态度系列调研。
该系列的核心目标包括：
- 监测北爱尔兰民众对社会政策与政治议题的态度；
- 针对关键社会政策领域的民众态度构建长期时间序列数据；
- 为学术领域的社会政策分析提供支持；
- 面向北爱尔兰广大用户群体，免费提供民众态度研究资源。

NILT最初设有1998年启动的配套系列——青年生活与时代调查（Young Life and Times Survey，缩写YLT），不过YLT在2003年变更了调研方法，此后每年独立开展。与YLT和NILT同属一组调研项目的，还有面向P7阶段（10至11岁）儿童的《儿童生活与时代》（Kids' Life and Times，缩写KLT）调查，相关调研详情可参考英国数据服务中心的对应系列页面。

NILT同时也是国际社会调查项目（International Social Survey Programme，缩写ISSP）的组成部分，但并非每年参与该项目。受经费问题影响，NILT于2011年暂停运行，不过当年YLT仍按计划正常开展；NILT于2012年恢复运行（编号SN 7408）。此外，研究知识获取平台（Access Research Knowledge，缩写ARK）基于NILT多个年度的调研数据，开发了若干开放获取教学数据集，内容涵盖女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋与跨性别（Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender，缩写LGBT）议题、政治与社群关系、对老龄化及年龄歧视的态度，以及痴呆症相关研究等。

有关该系列调研的更多信息，可访问ARK平台的NILT官方网页。