6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa

� in southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain), only data gathered at
European level on youth information and on the implementation of the ‘Youth in
Action’ programme was documented at national level; and
� the structures and services provided by youth associations are not sufficiently visible
(Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Norway). In some countries, however, the share of youth
work provided by non-public associations can be documented.
In summary, the following can be said about the data on the money and time invested in
youth activities:
� in nearly all the countries surveyed, only amounts provided by the ministries
responsible for youth affairs or by European institutions were identifiable;
� the budgets contributed by other sources – e.g. employment and social affairs,
health or sport – were not available for the present study;
� in none of the countries surveyed, with the exception of Germany, was there any
information available at national level on funds invested at state or local level;
� the time and money invested by youth organisations and other non-public
associations cannot be documented.
The following can be said regarding data on the number of people employed:
� some countries (Greece, Italy, Norway) have no aggregated data on youth workers at
national level;
� the only well documented figure is the number of youth workers employed in public
institution and paid with public funds;
� information is available on the qualifications of youth workers and their employment
relationships in those cases where basic data is collected on numbers of youth
workers;
� the number of youth work volunteers cannot be directly documented in any of the
countries of the survey. If information is available at all, it concerns data derived from
studies on volunteer work and data on the ratio between paid and unpaid youth
workers.
The following can be said with regard to the young people participating in youth work
activities:
� data on participants in institutional activities is available for only a few of the countries
surveyed (Estonia, Germany, Romania);
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