\n \nYPBAS was introduced in 2000 as an omnibus survey of post-primary school children which replaced a number of previous surveys. It is a triennial study, conducted once every three years. Repeating this survey on a regular basis will allow government to continue to identify and monitor any significant changes, and if necessary, new policies and strategies will be developed and implemented as a result. Therefore to ensure comparability, the same methodology has been applied over the all rounds to date and the questionnaires were of a similar format.
Further information is available on the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Young Persons' Behaviour and Attitudes Survey webpages.
Main Topics: The main topics covered in most years of the YPBAS include:
demographics
school
travelling to school
nutrition and sports
smoking
alcohol, solvents and drugs
personal safety
sexual experience and relationships
health
education
To accommodate the demand for topics on the 2022 survey, two versions of the questionnaire were used. Schools were randomly assigned one version of the questionnaire.
In 2022 several new topics were added to the questionnaire: Road Safety, Future Intentions, Equality and Gambling.
Note that for the topic of Young Carers, variables HealthWellbeing_16a through to HealthWellbeing_16y have been removed from the dataset at the client’s request.
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