6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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which of these activities should be c<strong>on</strong>sidered as the most important of the activities offered<br />
by this provider.<br />
There are also some problems regard<strong>in</strong>g the availability of data about youth work activities.<br />
In some cases officials admit that they have no data about some youth work activities, and <strong>in</strong><br />
other cases it is obvious that the zeros <strong>in</strong> table 2 refer more likely to the fact that there is no<br />
data available about some youth work activity and not so much to the possibility that these<br />
youth work activities are not offered <strong>in</strong> the municipality.<br />
Table 24: <strong>Youth</strong> work activities <strong>in</strong> Est<strong>on</strong>ian municipalities<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> work activity Kuusalu Narva Pärnu Tartu<br />
Cultural youth <strong>Work</strong> 1 12% 6 13% 9 18% 9 14%<br />
Extracurricular youth work 1 12% 17 40% 17 33% 12 19%<br />
Children and youth recreati<strong>on</strong> 3 38% 1 2% 2 4% 9 14%<br />
Open youth <strong>Work</strong> 3 38% 0 0% 0 0% 11 17%<br />
Street work 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 2%<br />
Sports No data - 2 5% 8 16% 2 3%<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> counsell<strong>in</strong>g No data - 0 0% 0 0% 2 3%<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> educati<strong>on</strong> No data - 17 40% 15 29% 13 21%<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> employment 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 2%<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> No data - 0 0% 0 0% 3 5%<br />
The data about funds available for youth work and the relati<strong>on</strong> between the sources of<br />
f<strong>in</strong>ance is unfortunately not available to us. There is currently a study be<strong>in</strong>g c<strong>on</strong>ducted about<br />
the budgets of youth work providers <strong>in</strong> the youth service of the Tartu city council, so that<br />
there should so<strong>on</strong> be quite detailed <strong>in</strong>formati<strong>on</strong> available at least for Tartu.<br />
The data available about youth workers is rather superficial. It is possible to obta<strong>in</strong> the total<br />
number of youth workers <strong>in</strong> the four municipalities selected. It must be noted, however, that<br />
<strong>in</strong> the three larger municipalities (Narva, Pärnu, Tartu) <strong>on</strong>ly the number of youth workers and<br />
teachers <strong>in</strong> the hobby schools and hobby centres are reported, so that the actual total<br />
number of youth workers is probably a little higher.<br />
More detailed data is available <strong>on</strong>ly for the municipality of Kuusalu, where we obta<strong>in</strong>ed the<br />
number of youth workers work<strong>in</strong>g full-time and part-time (see table 25), the ratio of youth<br />
workers work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> public and n<strong>on</strong>-public organisati<strong>on</strong>s (5/3), the ratio of male and female<br />
youth workers (3/5) and the number of youth workers with higher educati<strong>on</strong> (4) or with<br />
professi<strong>on</strong>al school educati<strong>on</strong> (1).<br />
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