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The Kids' Life and Times Survey (KLT) began in 2008 and is conducted by Access Research Knowledge (ARK) which runs the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) and the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT). The KLT is a survey of Primary year 7 (P7) children in Northern Ireland which is carried out online and in school. (Note that NILT did not run in 2011, but resumed in 2012. The KLT and YLT both ran as normal in 2011.)

The aims of the KLT are to:

• provide broad-based monitoring systems to examine children's views on policy issues on a regular basis
• ensure that the information from the survey is fed back to policymakers and others engaged in the policy debates around children and their lives
• provide a high profile endorsement of 'participation' by Northern Ireland's children

Further information about KLT, including the comic-style publication with key results especially designed for children, may be found on the ARK main Kids' Life and Times Survey web pages.

Main Topics:

In 2014, the following topics were included in the survey: home and family; bullying in school; happiness with school; children's rights (funded by Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY)); integrated education (funded by Integrated Education Fund (IEF)); play (funded by Playboard); nature (funded by Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)); ageing (funded by Improving Children's Lives (ICL), Queen's University Belfast); autism (funded by Centre for Behaviour Analysis (CBA), Queen's University Belfast).