Research of the needs of young people living in Pankisi, 2016

22 Apr 2016

By the order of Ministry of Sports and Youth iInstitute of Social Studies and Analysis conducted a sociological research, which aimed to study the needs of the young people (14-29 years) living in Pankisi valley.

Quantitative and qualitative methods of sociological research were used to achieve this objective, namely, face-to-face interview and focus groups (group discussions).

Qualitative research

At the first stage of the research was conducted a qualitative research in order to identify the problem of the research and reveal research tools and indicators. 3 group discussions were conducted with the young people (14-29 years old) living in Pankisi valley, based on that a quantitative research tool was elaborated (questionnaire).

Quantitative research

Within the frame of quantitative method, 405 respondents were interviewed in total in Pankisi valley using the face-to-face interview. Institute of social studies and analysis used parents’ informed consent forms to interview the young people aged 14-17.

The final version of the questionnaire was formatted in excel and was spread with ODK Aggregate. The data was collected by “ODK collect”.

Data arrangement and analysis

During the field works a statistician created data matrix using the data analysis program – SPSS. After the completion of field works the statistician prepared obtained data for the further analysis that included the formalization (coding) of each open question in the questionnaire and then their “cleaning”. Afterward, the processed data was developed in the SPSS database, based on which the statistical processing and analysis of the data obtained from the survey were carried out using different methods.