Jaunimo ir jaunų suaugusiųjų socialinė atskirtis ir gyvenimo sąlygos: stebėsenos indikatorių paieškos problema
Youth and young adults social exclusion and living conditions: development of monitoring indicators

Summary/Abstract: This paper is aimed to analyse the development of indicators for youth and young adults social exclusion and living conditions. The first part of the paper presents analysis of social exclusion and to this issue related concepts: social deprivation, poverty etc. The main characteristics of youth and young adults as a social exclusion group were discussed. The second part of the paper is devoted to the methodological questions of social exclusion (measurement and indicators). The third part of the paper presents original monitoring methodology and indicators of youth and young adults social exclusion and living conditions. These indicators could be successfully applied for scientific and public administration purposes. The following dimensions of youth and young adults social exclusion and living conditions were identified: employment, income, education, health status, accessability to social services, housing, social relationships, deviance / anomy, migration / regional differencies, civic, political participation and sociodemographic indicators. Macro-level indicators were oriented towards indicators that are collected by the Lithuanian and EU statistical offices and departments. Micro-level indicators were based on subjective attitudes of respondents / informants.

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