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associations (20%) – multiple response possible. By contrast,
professional associations/trade-unions, political associations, health
organisations and faith-based organisations were the least
represented – less than 10% of the sample identified itself as such
kind of organisation in each case. The organisations surveyed mainly
catered for younger age groups, in particular 15 to 25 years of age.
They reported to cater for a variety of groups of young people in
terms of prior educational attainment, from primary to higher
education. At the secondary education level, people who had
attained general secondary education were more likely to be involved
with the organisations surveyed than people from vocational
backgrounds – see Annex 3 for further details.
Regarding the survey of young people, most respondents (44%)
were between 20 and 24 years of age, followed by individuals aged
25-29 (27%). 13% were 30 or over and 16% were below 20 years of
age. The survey obtained a wide geographical coverage, as
individuals from over 50 nationalities replied to the survey. The
greatest percentage of respondents came from Italy (17%), followed
by Serbia (10%), Romania (7%), Spain (5%) and Germany (5%).
Young people reported to have been involved with youth
organisations as participants in the activities run (80%),
project/programme leader or coordinator (53%), youth
leader/educator (51%), resource persons (47%), had had a
governance/leadership position (38%) or had been a trainer/facilitator
(32%) – multiple response were possible. 11% reported to have
been involved as paid staff and 2% in some other capacity – see
Figure 1.
Figure 1 Ways in which young people have been involved in youth
organisations
Source: Bath/ ICF-GHK survey.
More than 40% of the sample had been involved in youth
organisations’ activities for five or more years; 28% for 3 to 5 years,
16% for one or two years and 14% for a year or less. The frequency
of involvement in youth organisations’ activities of 30% of the sample
was three or more times a week, while 35% of the sample was
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