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The Evaluation of Programs to assist young Unemployed in Post Communist East-Central Europe 1996-1998

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3121 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3121
Abstract: The match between the situations of young unemployed and the assistance offered to them by state agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO). Topics: Family background; nationality status and religious affiliation; parents´professional status before and after 1989; occupational status of siblings; marital status; number and age of children and type of household; educational background; years spent into full-time education; type of school and specialty; involvement into post-compulsory education; plans for employment status while at school and source of career advice; sequence between ed ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1996 - 1998
Geographic coverage: Plovdiv (BG-16) | Vas (HU-VA) | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (HU-SZ) | Katowice (PL-KA) | Suwalki (PL-SU) | Bratislavský kraj (SK-BL), Bratislava | Trenciansky kraj (SK-TC), Trenčín | Trnavský kraj (SK-TA), Galanta | Pazardzhik (BG-13), Velingrad
Universe: Young unemployed people aged 16-30 years.
Number of Units: 800
Sampling Procedure: Multi-stage sampling. In each country two labor markets were chosen - one with higher and one with lower unemployment rate than the average in the country. In each region three quarters of young people were randomly selected from the registers of the local state Labor Offices; one third were unregistered unemployed identified and recruited by snow ... more
Mode of Data Collection: Interview with a standard, semi-structured questionnaire
Data Collector: Local country teams associated with the Institute of World Economics, Budapest, Hungary; Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,Bratislava, Slovakia.
Analysis System(s): SPSS
Number of Variables: 107
Notes: This data set is comparable with the survey "Young self-employed and their support systems in former communist countries 1996-1998" (ZA3122). The study includes in-depth interview of the non-governmental organizations. In each region of the four countries 10 non-governmental organizations with programs offering assistance to young self unemployed w ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Roberts, Kenneth - University of Liverpool, GB | Fagan, Colette - University of Liverpool, GB | Foti, Klara - Institute of World Economics, Budapest, Ungarn | Jung, Bohdan - Warsaw School of Economics, Polen | Kurzynowski, Adam - Warsaw School of Economics, Polen | Szumlic, Tadeusz - Warsaw School of Economics, Polen | Kovatcheva, Sijka - Universit ... more
Publication year: 1999
DOI: 10.4232/1.3121
Study number: ZA3121
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3121
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Reference publications

Publications: Wallace, Claire; Kovatcheva, Sijka: Changing Times, Changing Lives. The Construction and Deconstruction of Youth in East and West Europe. Sociological Series No. 22. Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna 1998.
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Roberts, Kenneth, Fagan, Colette, Foti, Klara, Jung, Bohdan, Kurzynowski, Adam, Szumlic, Tadeusz, Kovatcheva, Sijka, Machacek, Ladislav, & Tholen, Jochen (1999). The Evaluation of Programs to assist young Unemployed in Post Communist East-Central Europe 1996-1998. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3121 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3121.

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