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The money and time invested in youth activities can be traced either by examining a country’s legal provisions or the national budgets of the ministries dedicated to youth issues – in most cases exclusively –, or by looking at expenditure in individual municipalities. However, neither level gives more than an incomplete picture of total expenditure. The main funding sources of youth work are municipal funds as well as national and European funds. In Austria, public spending covers at least 43% of total expenditure, making it the main source of finance. The Netherlands are an exception: here, membership and participation fees complemented by sponsoring funds make up the lion’s share of resources to cover the costs of activities at local level. However, municipal surveys also show that volunteers represent a considerable share of resources in youth work. In Greece, the survey documented a 48% proportion of honorary workers involved at local level, while in all other countries for which data was available, volunteers accounted for a 75% share of resources if not significantly more. An overview presented in the study shows that the share of the budgets of youth-specific ministries in total public expenditure ranges from a minimum of 0.001% to a maximum of 0.04%. However, reliable information on the total amounts of time and money spent on youth activities will not be available until public spending at state or local level and the involvement of volunteers can also be documented. When compared to numbers of volunteers, paid employees account for a significantly lower proportion of youth workers: 8% in the Netherlands to a maximum of 25% in Spain. With the exception of the Netherlands, where part-time contracts dominate, paid youth workers have full-time positions in at least 60% of cases and have had at least professional school education. While the survey shows roughly equal numbers of female and male youth workers at local level in Greece, in most other countries youth work is a primarily female occupation, with the proportion of female workers ranging from a minimum of 60% to 88% in Norway. 8 Findings: money and time invested in youth activities (see pages 115 and 117) Findings: the number of people employed (see page 117)
Findings: young people participating in youth activities (see page 119) Comments on the socioeconomic scope of youth work in Europe Reasons for the incompleteness of reporting at national level (see page 51) Data gathered at municipal level shows that the most popular youth work activities for the participants are extracurricular youth education, sports and recreational activities. The ratio of female to male participants is balanced in most countries; in Norway, male participants dominate with a proportion of 56%. Local surveys show that the main target group of youth work activities in most countries – with the exception of Norway and Romania – is young people up to the age of 19. The study has revealed three main findings with regard to the socio-economic effect of youth work. In all the countries participating in the study, youth work represents a broad range of activities offered at local level. Local youth work is designed and provided not only by state institutions, but in particular by a variety of NGOs that contribute a wealth of time, money, resources and know-how. Extracurricular youth education constitutes a central field of activity of youth work. Youth work therefore includes an extensive range of structured institutional offers involving nonformal educational activities. Because of the many committed volunteers involved in youth work, we can claim on the one hand that youth work offers a broad range of opportunities for non-formal educational processes; but on the other hand, the high proportion of volunteers also shows that youth work is a field of activity that attracts and binds large numbers of committed persons. The present study has clearly shown that there is no country in Europe where the documentation of youth work at national level is free of gaps. None of the participating countries offer a comprehensive image of all actions undertaken in youth work, especially of those actions provided at local level by non-public associations – in particular youth associations or special youth groups within the framework of other associations – without financial support from public institutions. Furthermore, how complete the image of youth work is for a particular country depends very much on the existence and content of the concept of youth work in that country and on the allocation of responsibilities between the various administrative levels. 9
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were funded with € 1,066,100 and
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activities, open youth work / youth
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voluntary organisations and to send
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In Greece and Spain recreation acti
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limited financial funds, the youth
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the accomplishment of youth-specifi
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from the street culture that define
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focusing only on young people in vo
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members in organisations, or access
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