Young Life and Times Survey, 2003-2012: Teaching Dataset

<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> The <I>Young Life and Times Survey, 2003-2012: 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 SNs 7546 and 7547) as well as this time-series teaching dataset drawing on the YLT 2003-2012 surveys. 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 is based on YLT 2003-2012, 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 YLT annual studies for research (see SNs 4826, 5175, 5338, 5674, 5818, 6274, 6531, 6820, 7058 and 7409). 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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《青年生活与时代调查》（Young Life and Times Survey，YLT）最初是作为《北爱尔兰生活与时代调查》（Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey，NILT）系列的配套调查项目启动的。该调查面向居住在NILT受访成年人家庭中的12-17岁青少年，于1998年至2000年间与NILT同步开展。2001年完成评估后，YLT系列于2003年重启（参见SN 4826），采用了完全不同的调查方法，且独立于成人版NILT。新版YLT调查以儿童福利记录作为抽样框架。

YLT系列的研究目标包括：
1. 监测北爱尔兰民众对社会政策与政治议题的态度；
2. 构建关键社会政策领域民众态度的时间序列数据集；
3. 助力学术性社会政策分析，并为北爱尔兰广大用户群体提供可免费获取的公众态度研究资源；
4. 为青少年群体发声。

2003年至2012年的YLT调查已被整理为开放获取的时序教学数据集，参见SN 7548。

《儿童生活与时代调查》（Kids’ Life and Times，KLT）面向P7年级（10-11岁）儿童，同样属于YLT与NILT所属的调查套件。

如需了解YLT的更多信息（包括相关出版物），可访问英国学术研究知识平台（Access Research Knowledge，ARK）的YLT专题网页。

《2003-2012年青年生活与时代调查：教学数据集》是高等教育学院（Higher Education Academy，HEA）战略项目的教学与学习资源套件之一，该项目聚焦研究方法教学。项目"Learning by numbers: new open educational resources for teaching quantitative methods"（《以数为学：面向定量方法教学的新型开放教育资源》）从两项聚焦北爱尔兰的大型调查中构建了全新的教学数据集，并配套了"面向学生友好型"的文档与教学指南。具体而言，项目依托2012年NILT数据构建了两项教学数据集（参见SN 7546与SN 7547），同时基于2003-2012年YLT调查构建了本项时序教学数据集。

教学数据集附带整合了编辑版技术报告与编码手册的文档，其中包含教学数据集所涵盖的全部变量细节，以及以通俗易懂语言撰写的技术报告摘要，涵盖研究设计、抽样方法与应答率等核心议题。同时，针对数据集内特定变量的教学指南也已同步上线。

本数据集基于2003-2012年YLT原始数据，并为该项目需求进行了适配调整。部分变量为适配本教学数据集进行了构建或简化，相关说明已在编码手册中注明。尽管本教学数据集的受访者总规模与原始调查一致，但仅可用于教学用途；若用于学术研究，建议使用原始的YLT年度调查数据（参见SN 4826、5175、5338、5674、5818、6274、6531、6820、7058及7409）。如需了解更多教学数据集的相关信息，可访问ARK教学数据集专题网页"ARK Teaching datasets: Learning by numbers"（《ARK教学数据集：以数为学》）。