The 2025 Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey was carried out between 26 September and 14 December 2025. 1,244 adults aged 18 years or over took part.
The Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey was launched in 1998 and puts on record the attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland on a wide range of social policy issues.
Life and Times has its roots in the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, which ran from 1989 to 1996. NILT has also sometimes shared questions with the International Social Survey Programme (IISP), to allow easy comparisons with other countries.
The range of topics varies from year to year, as do the organisations which fund the survey. The survey team work with a wide range of subject experts to develop the questionnaire. Several questions relate to Education and you can see the results of those questions by clicking the link below.
