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.