9. National Survey specific issues

9. National Survey specific issues

COVID-19 pandemics

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there were certain obstacles in conducting a field research, as most of the young people were more interested in taking an online survey instead of face-to-face interviews. The research team overcame this issue by using personal contacts (emails and telephones) of partner organizations, public schools and universities, social media publications, personal connections with interested individuals and other channels of communication which at the end resulted in overachieving of the targeted number of questionnaires.