VOICES OF YOUTH
SURVEY ON YOUTH IN B IH
Quantitative R esear ch Findings
For a more detailed overview of the results concerning the above see Table 2 below.
Table 2: To what extent can you say that the following statements apply to your education?
Teaching requirements are too much of a burden for me There are many subjects I am interested in Most teachers take me seriously and are interested in my work Most teachers approach their students in an appropriate way My results in school are very important to my parents
I receive full support from my parents when I face problems in education
Definitely To a lesser To a large not extent extent 21.0%
47.3%
25.9%
7.5%
29.7%
45.5%
6.7%
6.2%
24.8%
26.3%
Fully 5.4%
46.2%
21.9%
50.9%
16.4%
17.0%
Do not want to answer 0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
6.1%
11.7%
33.5%
48.3%
0.4%
5.7%
9.1%
33.1%
51.8%
0.4%
While both the young people who belong to general population and those who belong to vulnerable groups shared similar opinions on the extent to which education requirements represent a burden to them, when it came to other characteristics of education the respondents from vulnerable groups had significantly more negative attitudes relative to the general population respondents. The respondents from vulnerable groups chose the answers ‘Definitely not’ and ‘To a lesser extent’ significantly more often than those respondents from the general population. In addition to the fact that most of the respondents from vulnerable groups found school subjects uninteresting, these respondents also perceived a lack of support from both parents and teachers in terms of their education (see Table 3). The aforementioned conclusions offer an insight into the reasons for this group’s poorer results in terms of education as compared to young people from the general population.
Table 3: To what extent can you say that the following statements apply to your education? (Comparison between young people belonging to the general population and young people belonging to vulnerable groups) Young people from the general population
Teaching requirements are too much of a burden for me There are many subjects I am interested in Most teachers take me seriously and are interested in my work Most teachers approach their students in an appropriate way My results in school are very important to my parents I receive full support from my parents when I face problems in education
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Young people from vulnerable groups in the population
Definitely Definitely To a large To a large not/ To a not/ To a extent/ Fully extent/ Fully lesser extent lesser extent 68.3%
31.5%
68.8%
30.7%
35.0%
64.7%
50.0%
49.7%
28.5% 30.5% 13.9% 10.7%
71.1% 69.1% 85.8% 88.9%
48.6% 43.5% 39.8% 37.8%
51.1% 56.5% 59.4% 61.4%