Description:The annual Northern Ireland Life and Times survey provides an indispensable guide to attitudes towards current social and political issues in contemporary Northern Ireland. The survey began in 1998, and is coordinated by a team from the University of Ulster and Queen’s University Belfast. Within this report, the eighth in the series on social attitudes in Northern Ireland, an authoritative group of academics summarise and interpret data from the 1998 and 1999 surveys, and comment on a wide range of social policy issues. In addition, many of the chapters draw invaluable comparisons with findings from previous years, and provide an in-depth examination of changing values in Northern Ireland. This volume is essential reading for all those concerned with social and political debate in Northern Ireland.