6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa

which of these activities should be considered as the most important of the activities offered
by this provider.
There are also some problems regarding the availability of data about youth work activities.
In some cases officials admit that they have no data about some youth work activities, and in
other cases it is obvious that the zeros in table 2 refer more likely to the fact that there is no
data available about some youth work activity and not so much to the possibility that these
youth work activities are not offered in the municipality.
Table 24: Youth work activities in Estonian municipalities
Youth work activity Kuusalu Narva Pärnu Tartu
Cultural youth Work 1 12% 6 13% 9 18% 9 14%
Extracurricular youth work 1 12% 17 40% 17 33% 12 19%
Children and youth recreation 3 38% 1 2% 2 4% 9 14%
Open youth Work 3 38% 0 0% 0 0% 11 17%
Street work 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 2%
Sports No data - 2 5% 8 16% 2 3%
Youth counselling No data - 0 0% 0 0% 2 3%
Youth education No data - 17 40% 15 29% 13 21%
Youth employment 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 2%
Youth information No data - 0 0% 0 0% 3 5%
The data about funds available for youth work and the relation between the sources of
finance is unfortunately not available to us. There is currently a study being conducted about
the budgets of youth work providers in the youth service of the Tartu city council, so that
there should soon be quite detailed information available at least for Tartu.
The data available about youth workers is rather superficial. It is possible to obtain the total
number of youth workers in the four municipalities selected. It must be noted, however, that
in the three larger municipalities (Narva, Pärnu, Tartu) only the number of youth workers and
teachers in the hobby schools and hobby centres are reported, so that the actual total
number of youth workers is probably a little higher.
More detailed data is available only for the municipality of Kuusalu, where we obtained the
number of youth workers working full-time and part-time (see table 25), the ratio of youth
workers working in public and non-public organisations (5/3), the ratio of male and female
youth workers (3/5) and the number of youth workers with higher education (4) or with
professional school education (1).
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