Catch-Eyou: D3.1 Policy Analysis: Cross-National Reports

Abstract The data set includes data from the analysis of written public documents on youth policies produced at European, national and local level during a three years period between 2012-2014. The policy analysis aims at identifying dominant institutional policy discourses subsumed at European level and within eight EU countries: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Portugal, United Kingdom, Estonia, and Greece. The data sets include full citation of data sources of policy documents and data resulting from the content analysis performed on the policy documents. The policy analysis reinvigorates the existing research conducted in this area (cf. Bee, Guerrina, 2014) by exploring youth policies and policy responses in the context of a contemporary political and social climate where European identity is deeply contested, and where the global migration effects of regional conflicts have also challenged understandings of and claims to European citizenship. The data can be reused by researchers who want to compare our data with similar data collected in different countries. Also, other stakeholders may be interested in reanalyzing our data for comparative aims.