The purpose of this study was to: extend the <i>British General Election Study</i> to Northern Ireland (the <i>British General Election Study, 1992</i> is held at The Data Archive under study number 2981) provide longitudinal comparisons with previous work in the same area, namely Rose (1971) and Moxon-Browne (1983) provide, for the first time, an attitudinal survey `locked into' a specific general election to compare social attitudes in Northern Ireland and Britain. Key topics covered in this study were: the social bases of political allegiance in Northern Ireland; the persisting importance of religious affiliation in Northern Ireland politics; the development of a loyalism-nationalism Likert scale; the continuities and changes in the evolution of self-perceived national identity 1968-1992; the territorial and local aspects of political interest, voting and party preference, the campaign issues and ideologies.