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8 Survey Results 8.1 Availability of Data In most of the European countries participating in this survey reporting about the structures of and the participation in youth work is possible only by combining data from different sources. With the exception of Germany, no country has regulations for compulsory, regularly and comprehensive reporting on youth work. The availability of data about youth work depends on different factors that can be identified as follows: 46 � The existence of specific national youth programmes funded with European or national budgets � Examples of this can be found in all countries. In Spain for instance, the data accessible at national level results from the monitoring of a special job insertion programme (INEM). � The existence of ministries or agencies responsible for implementing and monitoring youth work policies � Romania can be named here as an example: here, the National Youth Authority involves the municipalities in reporting as they fund their youth activities. � The need for monitoring developments in youth work according to political requirements � In Germany the responsible ministry for youth affairs has to report to parliament every four years about the living condition of children and young people and about structural developments in the field of youth work. � Promotion of youth work by youth associations and other institutions In the Netherlands and in Ireland youth associations report on the activities of their member organisations. � Scientific research In Norway the best available source of information on youth participation is a scientific survey conducted in 2002 by the Norwegian Social Research Institute and funded by different sources. Countries like Austria and Germany publish regular national youth reports. In Austria these reports are published every three years and focus on specific issues. In Germany, the Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth reports to parliament every four years about the living conditions of children and young people and about youth assistance structures. These reports are issue-centred too, but they also provide a broad data base. Moreover all administrative levels in Germany are forced by law to provide data about youth work to the National Statistic Bureau on an annual basis. This data is compiled and published every two to four years.
In countries like Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and Spain we can find dispersed studies about youth work issues published by various public institutions. These studies are not regular and they often serve as a mere documentation of the activities of institutions or as evaluations of the performance of special programmes. Norwegian municipalities are also obliged to provide data every year about some kinds of public youth work. For the Netherlands and Ireland it can be stated that the youth associations themselves report about youth work issues involving their associated members. In the Netherlands these reports were unfortunately stopped because of cancelled subventions in 2003. And finally, in countries such as Greece and Italy there are no reports on youth work issues at all. The available data focuses on national programmes and budgets and tend to follow rather the logic of verifying public funding rather than the documentation of youth work activities. In Romania we meet the situation that reports on youth work issues drawn up by the National Agency for Supporting Young Peoples´ Initiatives are not published. In addition to these surveys, there are also different surveys done for research purposes by researchers working at universities. In most countries, the available data is not representative. There are three types of reasons for this: � Existing surveys are based on voluntary the commitment of municipalities or organisations. This is the case in Austria, for instance, where national reports on youth are done on a regular basis, but where not all associations participate, or in the Netherlands where there is a survey of the Dutch municipalities but again without the participation of all of them. � The surveys collect data from different ministries or agencies for a variety of purposes and do not refer to the system of other surveys. This is the case in the Netherlands where we can find studies from the Association of Dutch Municipalities, from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports and from youth associations about different youth work issues. Another example are the surveys on voluntarism existing in several countries (i.e. Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, the Netherlands) that do not focus precisely enough on the issue of youth work, as their intention is to map the whole landscape and potential of voluntarism. � The surveys use out-of-date data because the process of documentation and analysis takes a long time. The Italian Institute of Statistical Research, for instance, published reports in 2005 with data from 1999. � The following table gives an overview about the availability of reports on youth work in the participating countries: 47
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