6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa

offices of the state governments and digitalised. Attempts to get the results from the statistic
offices failed. The data therefore had to be counted in the youth offices or obtained from the
social planning activities. Because of the collection of local planning statistics and the
contribution to the national youth services statistics, the municipalities were not well disposed
to the idea of gathering new data. Thus it was not possible to use the age groups agreed for
the survey.
Findings:
The local survey in four municipalities showed on the one hand that there are typical
structures in the sector of youth work at local level in Germany, but on the other hand it
becomes apparent that that there are also differences in the structures and the contents of
youth work. One interesting finding is that the small group of youth work providers offers a
wide scope of different activities.
Table 27: Youth work providers and associations in German municipalities
Lübeck
Jork
Ilm Kreis
Lingen-Ems
Looking at the organisational types of youth work providers, we note that whenever a number
of providers are active in one local area, more of them tend to be non-public than public –
though the ratio between them remains fairly close (with the exception of Lingen, where
public providers dominate) – and that overall there are not very many providers in any one
area. The data available on youth organisations in Jork and Lübeck shows that there are
many youth associations and that they are exclusively non-public in their organisational
forms.
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Public % Non-public %
Youth work providers 11 46% 13 54%
(Youth) associations 159 100%
Youth work providers 1 100%
(Youth) associations 21 100%
Youth work providers 10 43% 13 57%
(Youth) associations No data
Youth work providers 5 71% 2 29%
(Youth) associations No data