YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Introduction  31 study, namely: (1) social support networks and intergenerational cooper- ation, (2) education, training, and lifelong learning, (3) employment and entrepreneurship, (4) living and housing conditions, and living environ- ment, (5) health andwell-being, (6) participation and social engagement, (7) creativity and culture, (8) mobility among young people, (9) the use of ICT and online environments, (10) consumption and shopping patterns, and (11) sustainable behaviour and values. The qualitative sample included 20 selected specific profiles of young people. It was designed based on specified socio-economic characteris- tics of young people, and special attention was paid to the fact that inter- views were conducted mainly with specific groups of young people who, due to their small size, could not be satisfactorily analysed by the survey method. When designing the sample, attention was also given to appro- priate age, gender, and geographical heterogeneity, as well as the dis- tinctiveness of the young people’s profiles. Due to the social distancing requirements associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, interviews were mostly conducted using online remote com- munication tools. The interviews usually lasted between 90 and 160 min- utes and each interviewee signed a consent form concerning their partici- pation and data retention. Each interview was recorded and a transcript was produced. Based on the transcripts, portraits of young people were sketched, which are presented in the appendix to this report, and the most relevant excerpts from them were also included in the report itself. Each interviewee provided a personal photograph of their choice that was used as accompanying visual material in the publication of their portrait profile. The third source of data came from databases previously created by other researchers or institutions. In this context, we reliedmainlyon thedata from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS), which were mostly obtained via the SI-STAT web portal, EUROSTAT data obtained through its web portal, databases of various relevant surveys (Miheljak et al., 2000; Lavrič et al., 2011; Slovenian Public Opinion Surveys (SJM);World (and Euro- pean) Values Surveys (WVS / EVS; EuropeanSocial Research (ESS)), andoth- er relevant official statistics, summary reports, and relevant surveys.