Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes Survey
A consortium of government departments and
public bodies have commissioned Central Survey
Unit (CSU) to design and conduct a study on
the behaviour and attitudes of young people
in post-primary education in Northern Ireland.
The Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes
Survey (YPBAS) is a school-based survey conducted
among 11-16 year-olds. The research covers
a range of topics, relevant to the lives of
young people today such as demographics, social
support, money, school, subject choices and
further education, starting a business, nutrition,
sport and physical activity, libraries, museums
and arts, modern technology, the environment,
travelling to school, road safety, policing,
attitudes towards domestic violence, anti-social
behaviour and personal safety, knife culture,
smoking, alcohol, solvents and drugs and sexual
experience and knowledge.
Three rounds of the survey have now taken
place: the first in Autumn 2000, the second
in Autumn 2003 and the third in Autumn 2007.
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