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DETAIL ED FINDI NGS
Out of the respondents to this survey 4.2% stated that they were persons with a certain level of disability.
More than half of these respondents reported that disability creates huge or significant obstacles to employment and work (65.0%), restricts their access to fun and recreation clubs/associations (57.0%), access to nature (57.0%) and public administration institutions (55.0%). In terms of education, slightly more than half of the respondents (51.0%) reported either few or no obstacles at all caused by disability. It is obvious that the society in BiH is not sensitised enough to the problems of this category of persons and that consequently many of the disabled face numerous challenges in their daily lives. It also appears that social protection for young people in BiH is generally inadequate and has many shortcomings and inefficient solutions. Although the new Law on Social Protection, which should be adopted by the end of the current year, may provide better and more practical solutions than the existing ones it will be necessary to oversee its consistent implementation. 2.4.1. Need for Counselling Services A relatively low percentage of respondents reported that they had required counselling services during the six months prior to the survey. The need for counselling services was most frequently mentioned within the context of job seeking (13.2%, compared to 20.7% in 2008); this was followed by learning problems (8.9%, compared to 7.1% in 2008) and education opportunities (7.1%, compared to 13.1% in 2008). For more detailed information on the counselling services that the respondents sought see Table 5. The respondents belonging to vulnerable groups reported significantly more often that during the previous six months they had required counselling services on reproductive health (9.1%), relative to general population respondents (5.1%). On the other hand and within this context, general population respondents more often reported counselling on lending options (6.1%, compared to 3.4% in vulnerable groups). Generally speaking, it appears that most of the young people did not believe that they could benefit from any kind of counselling services.
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