VOICES OF YOUTH
SURVEY ON YOUTH IN B IH
Quantitative R esear ch Findings
Graph 3: What was the basic theme of the training? (Courses and training that were not a part of the regular education curriculum)
The second wave of respondents was also asked about lifelong learning. Slightly more than half (56.7%) of the respondents were familiar with this concept, while a somewhat lower percentage (51.2%) reported being ready for a career change, namely to receive some form of new training in order to pursue a new career/occupation. Respondents belonging to the general population were more often familiar with the concept of lifelong learning as compared to those from vulnerable groups (59.7%, compared to 39.2% vulnerable groups) and were more willing to pursue a new career (52.1%, compared to 45.7% vulnerable groups). The conclusion that education outside of the formal education sector is not a common practice for young people in BiH points primarily to the fact that it is necessary to determine the reasons why young people do not attend such programmes, in order to be able to react to them. Non formal education programmes play a significant role when it comes to lifelong learning and acquiring new professional competencies that will allow young people to be more competitive within a labour market that continues to impose increasingly complex demands upon them. 2.2.3 Awareness and Ways of becoming Informed When considering the sources of information that young people most commonly use (see Graph 4) it became evident that television is the most important source of information for young people: 63.6% of respondents stated that television is their main source for obtaining information. A quarter of respondents (25.0%) cited the Internet, while other sources of information were much less commonly reported. Whereas respondents belonging to the general population far more frequently (27.3%) stated that they obtained informed via the Internet (11.9% of respondents belonging to vulnerable groups) it was far more common for respondents from vulnerable groups to report friends (11.4%) and family members (10.8%) as sources of information (compared to 3.0% and 2.1% respectively for respondents from the general population).
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