Turkey 2008 Human Development Report Youth in Turkey
İÇİNDEKİLERForeword....................................VAcknowledgements.....................VII Acronyms......................................IX Overview and Recommendations............1 Chapter 1 Youth Policy in Turkey 1.1 Selected critical characteristics and issues.......................13 1.2 Is youth policy sufficiently explicit?.................................16 1.3 For a comprehensive youth policy..................................21 Chapter 2 Education Opportunities for Youth..............................25 2.1 Quantity issue: Numbers and percentages in education...............................27 2.2 What about quality?..............................................33 2.3 For more and better education..............................36 Chapter 3 "Young and Healthy"?..............................................................41 3.1 Neither child nor adult, therefore "nonexistent"!....................................43 3.2 What is worse than nonexistence? "Being a nonexistent young woman".........................44 3.3 Truth about sex and drugs or"the good old ways of learning"about them?........................46 3.4 . Healthcare.....................................................48 3.5 Quality of life indicators.................................49 3.6 Fora healthier generation of youth.................................................49 Chapter 4 Youth Unemployment.................................................................53 4.1 Strong economic growth, weaker Human Development...............................55 4.2 Employment issues.....................................................................................60 4.3 Education and participation in Turkey contrasted with the EU......................61 4.4 Employment and youth employment trends...................................................63 4.5 Youth unemployment duration highlights...................................................66 4.6 Education connection.....................................................68 4.7 On rural youth................................................................71 4.8 Turkey needs a youth employment strategy........................72 Chapter 5 Participation................................................75 5.1 Lack of participation hinders Human Development...................77 5.2 Can civil society be an adequate channel for youth participation?..........80 Chapter 6 Vision for the Future...................................................85 6.1 Time for another leap in Turkey...................87 6.2 Young population will start decreasing after 2010.......88 6.3 Education is the first priority...........90 6.4 Employment is the most critical issue.................93 6.5 Development with a human face..........................94 Annexes............................97 Annex One: Turkey: Selected key statistics..............97 Annex Two: Turkish youth statistics....................100 Annex Three:Methodology of the quantitative survey............101 The method...............................................101 Quality check.............................................101 Data entry and analysis.............................102 Sample...................................102 Annex Four: Methodology of the qualitative survey...................108 Annex Five:25 Quality of Life Indicators.......................................110 Annex Six: Where is Turkey according to UNDP Human Development Indicators?..............111 Annex Seven: The position of youth in the labour market in OECD countries.......................112 Endnotes..............................................................114 Bibliography..............................................122  |
