Sexual orientation in the UK by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, and ethnic group. These are official statistics in development.

This research project examined the experiences of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people living in London. There is a long history of Irish migration to the UK, particularly London. This has coincided historically with many Irish LGBT people feeling compelled to emigrate in search of a more supportive social climate. The appeal of global cities to LGBT people has long been acknowledged. Metropolitan centres are associated with tolerance of sexual diversity and established queer communities. This study will explore Irish queer migrants' reasons for moving to London and experiences there. The research questions will focus on notions of home, identity, belonging, familial relationships and subjectivity. By exploring the relationship between sexuality, ethnicity and diaspora, the study intended to uncover the ways in which contemporary sexual citizenship, migration and queer imaginaries of the metropolis are mutually implicated in complex ways. A qualitative dataset is produced containing interviews with 38 Irish LGBT participants who have been living in London for at least five years. In addition to generating new theoretical work on sexuality and migration, the research findings will be used to inform policy and debate regarding processes of social exclusion.

The HYM Study investigates the individual, familial, interpersonal, and community contexts in which drug use, HIV risk-related behaviours, and health-promoting and seeking behaviours take place among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). Participants included young men who self-identified as one or more of the following: gay, bisexual, uncertain about their sexual orientation or reported having had sex with a man. All participants were living in Los Angeles County, California, USA. The study recruited two cohorts. The first cohort, consisting of approximately 530 men aged 18 to 24, was recruited between 2005 and 2006. These participants completed five waves of assessments conducted at 6-month intervals. The second cohort, consisting of around 450 African American/Black and Hispanic/Latino men aged 16 to 24, was recruited between 2016 and 2017. These participants completed eight waves of assessments at 6-month intervals. A renewal for the second cohort began in 2020, with plans for eight additional waves of assessments to be completed at six-month intervals until 2025.

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.
The main aims of the NILT series are:

• to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;
• to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;
• to facilitate academic social policy analysis;
• to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland.

NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.

NILT also forms part of the International Social Survey Programme (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 open access teaching datasets 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.

Further information about the series may be found on the ARK http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NILT webpage.

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2008: Attitudes to Older People, Ageing and Ageism Teaching Dataset is part of a suite of teaching and learning resources created by ARK, and complements a Higher Education Academy (HEA) strategic project focusing on teaching research methods. The project "Northern Ireland by Numbers" involved the creation of new teaching datasets from two major surveys focusing on Northern Ireland, with accompanying 'student-friendly' documentation. Specifically, two teaching datasets were created using the 2012 NILT survey (SN 7546 and SN 7547) as well as a time-series teaching dataset drawing on the 2003-2012 Young Life and Times (YLT) surveys (SN 7548). Likewise, ARK created five other datasets to be used on courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences. Further information about these may be found on the ARK Teaching Resources webpage.

This teaching dataset focuses on attitudes relating to older people, ageing and ageism, using data from the 2008 NILT adapted for the purposes of this project. Some variables have been constructed and/or simplified for this dataset and notes are provided in the accompanying documentation. While the teaching dataset is a valid representation of the data, it is intended for teaching purposes only; it is advisable to use the original NILT 2008 study (SN 6296) for research.