YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

30 began to deteriorate due to the coronavirus, conditions changed daily as the number of infected people increased. The state was taking newmeas- ures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which made personal field in- terviews more difficult every day. At the contractor’s request, the con- tracting authority approved the remote survey in mid-October using video communication applications (Zoom). From the originally planned SORS sample, 753 surveys were included in the final database after qual- ity control. The rest of the sample was realized by remote survey and based on quota sampling using an online panel. With this approach, an additional 447 surveys were included in the final database after perform- ing the quality control. The survey was completed on 10 November 2020. Following the quality control, the final realized sample amounted to ex- actly 1,200 surveys, and the final response rate was 42%. Since people were selected with different probabilities, as well as due to non-participation, rejections, and other deviations, the demographic characteristics of the realized sample deviates slightly from the charac- teristics of the target population. In order to improve the sample’s repre- sentativeness, it is therefore necessary to weigh the data and extrapolate to the entire target population. Weighting gives some elements in the pattern more significance than others and vice versa. Weighting was performed using the “raking” method according to all four key sampling criteria (gender, age group, type of settlement and statistical region). The in-depth interviews, which were the basic method of qualitative data collection, were based on two approaches, namely biographical and partially structured (Flick, 2014). The biographical approach was applied in the first part of the meeting with the interviewees, and its main pur- pose was to collect narratives that enabled the creation of individual por- traits. Biographical interviews included three basic elements, namely (1) the interviewee’s chronological history according to his profile place- ment, (2) focusing the interview on the specific situations that the inter- viewees had faced, and (3) identifying patterns that are relevant to the present study. A partially structured approach was applied in the second part of the meeting with the interviewees, and its main purpose was to gather narratives to address the topics that comprise the core of the present