The Iraqi National Youth Survey, 2009 - Iraq

Abstract
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the Ministry of Youth and Sports adopted the National Strategy for Youth Development, in cooperation with the Central Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the National Youth and Youth Survey (NYS) project in Iraq and its width and the Kurdistan Region, which focused heavily on key aspects of youth In Iraq for the category (10-30) years in order to access a broad database to facilitate the work of strategic decision-makers to build and rehabilitate young people, to develop plans and programs to improve information, attitudes and practices based on modern scientific basis correct.

The main objective of this survey is:
1- Studying the knowledge, attitudes and practices of young men and women in old age, especially after the political and social changes that Iraq has undergone since 2003 with the aim of drawing up a clear national strategy for youth that meets the requirements and aspirations of this age group of the population.
2- Providing a database on youth to serve researchers, planners, decision-makers and policy makers in the preparation of health, social and developmental plans and programs aimed at improving their economic, social, cultural and scientific conditions.
To estimate the size of the manpower and the labor force of young people in the society and their distribution according to the characteristics and knowledge of the size of employment and unemployment in society and to identify the characteristics and trends of the unemployed in order to follow the changes in employment rates and unemployment,
3- To study the relationship between the profession and the scientific specialization and to identify the reasons for the reluctance of young people to work in the private sector and handicrafts, as well as to create a modern database and provide all the information and statistics necessary to make comparisons and monitoring indicators at the local, regional and international levels, which helps to formulate policies to match the outputs of education and labor market Through labor market plans and strategies

The results of this national project are considered to meet the national need to integrate young people in the Iraqi national project right and transit to achieve natural rights and to strengthen the national gains and if we look at the statistics that resulted from the results of the survey, which give rise to optimism here and pessimistic there, we find that the picture will be clear and clear In this segment calls for the minimum requirements of modern institutions of government and international and civil and want to be effective in achieving the achievement of added and direct attention should be on a large scale as it needs multiple legislation in the political, economic and cultural aspects.

Geographic coverage
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NYS is nationally representative, covering all governorates of Iraq, including Kurdistan.

Analysis unit
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1- Households.
2- Youth aged (10-30)

Universe
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The survey covered a national sample of households and selected youth aged 10-30.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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Sample Design and Method of Selecting Sampling Units
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The survey sample comprised 6492 households completely interviewed; these households are
distributed across all governorates and included 15080 persons in the age of (10-30) years old who
were completely interviewed. Data collection took place during the period from 25/3/2009 to
13/4/2009.

The sample of the Iraq national youth and adolescent's survey for the year 2009 was designed to be
representative at the governorates level with a confidence interval of 95% and a margin of error of 7%.
It was taken into account, while deciding on the sample size, to address the bias resulting from the
adoption of the cluster method in selection households and also to address the possible non-response
rate due to the fact that some households might not be cooperative with the interviewers while others
may not be present in their homes during the fieldwork.
To compute indicators, we take into account the relative weight of the population in each stratum, so
that indicators showed are weighted using factors computed so that sampled population present the
same pattern as the real population , for example the population of Baghdad Governorate constitutes
around 22.1% of the whole Iraqi population while the Muthna governorate constitutes around 2.2%,
etc.
In light of the above, the sample size was 6730 households with 360 households in each governorate
with the exception of Baghdad where the sample amounted to 610 families, distributed on different
environments (urban central, Suburbs, and rural areas) whereby 2500 households were sampled
from the urban central area against some 2250 in the Suburbs areas and 1980 households in the rural
communities, on the level of Iraq as a whole.

The design of the sample relied on the following criteria:
• Providing indicators with an adequate representation on the governorates level and on the
environmental level in each governorate (urban central – suburbs – and rural), since the surveys,
previously implemented over the past three years in Iraq, aimed at reaching that level of details.
• Adapting the available sample frames with the aim of selecting an adequate representative
sample with the absence of a modern sample frame.
• Choosing a sampling design appropriate for Iraq current situation and facilitates completing
fieldwork efficiently

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The survey tool is a long and detialed questionnaire for both Househlds and individuals 10-30.

Response rate
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6492 households were interviewed with a response rate of 96.5%, while 15080 youth and
adolescents were also interviewed with a total response rate of 92.6% (94.5% for females and
91.1% for males) that reached its utmost in the governorate of Najaf (100%) and its lowest was
in As-Sulaimanya Governorate (73.2%).

摘要
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青年体育部与中央统计局以及联合国人口基金（UNFPA）合作，采纳了国家青年发展策略，并在伊拉克及其库尔德地区的全国青年及青年调查（NYS）项目中予以实施，该项目着重于伊拉克（10-30岁）年龄段青年的关键问题，旨在构建一个广泛的数据库，以便利战略决策者制定和修复青年发展计划，并基于现代科学原理改进信息、态度和实践。

本调查的主要目标为：
1. 研究老年人，尤其是自2003年以来伊拉克经历的政治和社会变革之后，男女青年的知识、态度和实践，以制定符合该年龄群体人口需求和期望的明确国家青年策略。
2. 为研究人员、规划者、决策者和政策制定者提供青年数据库，以协助他们准备旨在改善其经济、社会、文化和科学条件的健康、社会和发展计划。
3. 评估青年劳动力和劳动力规模，以及根据社会就业和失业规模的特征和知识分布，识别失业者的特征和趋势，以便追踪就业率和失业率的变化，研究职业与科学专业之间的关系，识别青年在私营部门和手工艺业工作的抵触原因，并创建现代数据库，提供所有必要的信息和统计数据，以便在地方、区域和国际层面进行对比和监测指标，这有助于制定与教育产出和劳动力市场相匹配的政策，通过劳动力市场计划和战略。

国家项目的成果被视为满足将伊拉克青年融入国家项目的需求，实现自然权利，并加强国家成果。如果我们审视调查结果产生的统计数据，时而乐观，时而悲观，我们将发现，这一领域的图景将变得清晰而明确。在此部分呼吁现代政府机构和国际及民间机构的最基本要求，并希望其能有效地实现附加价值，直接关注应大规模进行，因为它需要多个方面（政治、经济和文化）的多项立法。

地理覆盖范围
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NYS在全国范围内具有代表性，包括伊拉克所有省份，以及库尔德地区。

分析单位
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1. 家庭。
2. （10-30岁）青年。

总体
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调查涵盖了全国范围内的家庭样本和10-30岁的青年样本。

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

抽样程序
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抽样设计和抽样单位的选取方法
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调查样本包括6492个完全访谈的家庭，这些家庭分布在所有省份，并包括15080名（10-30岁）的完全访谈者。数据收集时间为2009年3月25日至4月13日。

2009年伊拉克全国青年及青少年调查的样本设计旨在在省级行政区具有代表性，置信区间为95%，误差范围为7%。在决定样本大小时，考虑到采用集群方法选择家庭可能产生的偏差，以及由于一些家庭可能不与访谈者合作，而其他家庭在实地工作期间可能不在家中，可能产生的非响应率。

为了计算指标，我们考虑了每个层级人口相对于其他层级的相对权重，因此显示的指标是使用计算出的因素进行加权，以使样本人口呈现与实际人口相同的模式，例如，巴格达省的人口约占伊拉克总人口的22.1%，而穆特纳省约占2.2%，等等。

鉴于上述情况，样本规模为6730户家庭，每个省份360户家庭，巴格达省除外，样本为610户家庭，分布在不同的环境（城市中心、郊区以及农村地区），其中从城市中心地区抽取的样本为2500户家庭，郊区约为2250户，农村社区约为1980户，在整个伊拉克层面。

样本设计基于以下标准：
• 在省份层面和环境层面（城市中心-郊区-农村）提供具有充分代表性的指标，因为过去三年在伊拉克实施的调查旨在达到这一层面的详细程度。
• 适应可用的样本框架，旨在在没有现代样本框架的情况下选择具有充分代表性的样本。
• 选择适合伊拉克当前情况且便于高效完成实地工作的抽样设计。

数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]

研究工具
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调查工具是对家庭和个人（10-30岁）进行的长而详细的问卷。

响应率
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6492户家庭接受了访谈，响应率为96.5%，同时，15080名青年和青少年也接受了访谈，总响应率为92.6%（女性为94.5%，男性为91.1%），纳杰夫省的响应率最高（100%），阿斯-苏莱曼尼亚省的响应率最低（73.2%）。