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1. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveyPreview of the 2007 resultsDirk SchubotzPaula Devine

2. Sample • Invited: all young people living in Northern Ireland who celebrated their 16th birthday in February 2007 (n=1,925) • Postal questionnaire sent out • 627 responded (return rate 33%) • Essay competition run alongside the survey

3. Subject areas covered • Caring responsibilities • Mental health (GHQ-12), disability • Social pressures and health/risk-taking behaviour • Community relations, cross-community schemes outside school • Children’s rights and child poverty

4. Return Rate • What we changed in 2007: • Freepost address instead of stamps – Did people understand this? • Prize draw: 5x £100 instead of £300, £100, £100 • Essay writing competition, peer researchers

5. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveyBackground

6. Background

7. Background

8. To which ethnic group do you consider you belong? Ethnic Identity No response/none: 14%

9. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveyMental health

10. Mental Health: GHQ-12 Have you recently: • been able to concentrate on whatever you’re doing? • lost much sleep over worry? • felt that you were playing a useful part in things? • felt capable of making decisions about things? • felt constantly under strain? • felt you couldn't overcome your difficulties?

11. Mental Health: GHQ-12 Two methods of coding GHQ-12: A: 12 items recoded 0,1,2,3 and the values summed to give score ranging from 0 to 36. Higher scores reflect poorer mental health B: 12 items recoded 1,2=0; 3,4=1 and the values summed to give score ranging from 0 to 12 Threshold of 4 or more - a ‘case’ Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha) - .93

12. Mental Health: GHQ-12 Respondents being ‘cases’ (4 or more items)

13. Mental Health: GHQ-12 Respondents being ‘cases’ (4 or more items)

14. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveyCaring responsibilities

15. Caring for someone at home • Some people have extra family responsibilities because they look after someone who's sick, disabled or elderly. Is there anyone living with you who is sick, disabled or elderly whom you personally look after or give special help to? • 9%

16. Caring for someone elsewhere • What about people not living with you, do you personally provide some regular service or help for any sick, disabled or elderly relative, friend or neighbour not living with you? • 14% • Therefore 20% care for someone living with them or living elsewhere

17. Caring

18. Caring by family background

19. Caring at home: who? • 48 respondents care for someone living with them, including: • Mother – 18 respondents • Brother - 9 respondents • Grandmother – 6 respondents

20. Caring at home: what? • 48 respondents care for someone living with them, including: • Help parent with housework: 15 • General care with grandparent: 10 • Care for sick/disabled sibling: 6 • Support/general care for disabled or sick parent

21. Caring elsewhere: who? • 69 respondents care for someone not living with them, including: • Grandmother: 29 respondents • Grandparents: 7 respondents • Neighbour: 4 respondents • Hospital: 2 respondents • Bingo club: 2 respondents • Youth club: 1 respondents

22. Caring elsewhere: what? • Help grandparent with housework and/or gardening: 29 respondents • Help other relative with housework or gardening: 13 respondents • Other general or social care for grandparent: 10 respondents

23. GHQ-12 and caring

24. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveyDisability

25. Prevalence Long standing illness or disability: 7% of all respondents Limiting illness or disability: 5% of all respondents

26. Marriage and disability - others Do you think that most people in Northern Ireland would mind or not mind if one of their close relatives were to marry someone with a physical disability?

27. Marriage and disability - self Would you personally mind or not mind if one of your close relatives were to marry someone with a physical disability?

28. About how many of your friends would you say have a disability?

29. Northern Ireland Young Life and Times SurveySocial pressures and health-adverse behaviour

30. Social pressures Have you ever felt pressurised to do any of the following things (Percentage saying ‘yes’)

31. Social pressures Source of pressure (%)

32. Respondents who had never done the following (%) Social pressures and health

33. Mental health and pressures ‘Caseness’ by social pressure experienced

34. Mental health and pressures ‘Caseness’ by health-adverse behaviour

35. Attitudes to politics, children’s rights and child poverty

36. Child poverty Is there very little real child poverty in NI or is there a lot?

37. Child poverty • 86% of respondents say that child poverty should be a high priority for the government • 72% of respondents say that actual figure of child poverty was much higher than they thought • 74% of respondents feel that laws should be changed to prevent people from being discriminated against because they are poor

38. Attitudes to politics What should be the age from which people should be entitled to vote (%)?

39. Attitudes to politics Interest in and knowledge about politics (%)

40. Attitudes to politics How well does the government protect your rights as a young person? By community background (%)

41. Attitudes to politics How well does the government protect your rights as a young person? By family financial background (%)

42. What sort of society do you want Northern Ireland to be in the future?

43. ‘A multicultural society built on respect and tolerance. A society free of hatred and discrimination. An all inclusive society, one in which all feel proud to play an active part within’ ‘A place where money is nothing to worry about and everyone can meet their basic needs’ ‘A safe society where people aren't ever afraid to leave their homes or say something out of place’ ‘A society where people aren't bullied physically or mentally because of their beliefs’ ‘A clean safe environment for all the people of NI’ ‘A cool one’

44. ‘A fair one where you don't get things just because of who you know in Sinn Fein or DUP! Young people should be a priority as we are the future’ ‘A caring society where no-one should have to live with being discriminated against or their lives being made unnecessarily hard’ ‘I think the society and the future of NI and UK is becoming so "politically correct" it is ironically inhibiting the freedom of its inhabitants.’

45. Cross-Community Schemes:Participation, motivation, mandate

46. Cross-community relations Respondents saying relations between Catholics and Protestants are better now than 5 years ago (%)

47. Cross-community relations Respondents saying that relations between Catholics and Protestants will be better in 5 years than now (%)

48. Cross-community relations Respondents saying that relations between Catholics and Protestants are better now than 5 years ago (%)

49. Cross-community relations Respondents saying that relations between Catholics and Protestants will be better in 5 years than now (%)

50. Cross-community relations Respondents saying that religion will always make a difference to the way people feel about each other in Northern Ireland