The perspective of unemployed youths towards unemployment and their leisure time : a quantitative analysis in the Outer Harbour Region Area

Abstract

This dissertation is going to focus on the perspective of unemployed youths towards unemployment and their leisure time. This research is going to centre primarily on how these unemployed youths perceive unemployment and what factors affect whether one gets employed or not. How these unemployed youths used to spend their leisure time when they were employed is also going to be investigated. Moreover, the matter of who looks for help in governmental institutions is also going to be tackled. Apart from giving the general percentage outcome of the whole population in the analysis of data this research goes into more detail as regards analyses from the perspective of: age: those aged between 15 and 19 years being in the late teenage years, against those aged between 20 and 24 years, being in early adulthood, and gender. This is going to be pursued in order to see whether there is any difference in opinions between the age groups and also whether there is any difference between the opinion of females and males when tackling the issues. This research was done using quantitative methodology. The participants of this research were one hundred twenty unemployed youths, aged between fifteen and twenty-four years from the localities of B'Kara and Qormi. This dissertation is going to follow this order: chapter one: introduction, chapter two: literature review, chapter three: methodology and chapter four: results and chapter five is the conclusion of this dissertation.