Federal youth surveys, ch-x

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The Federal Youth Surveys ch-x are an institution of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) to survey the socio-political sensitivities of young Swiss people.

Survey scope and publications

The ch-x interviewed all Swiss men (approx. 54,400 people) and around 2,500 19-year-old men and women, be they Swiss or foreign young adults living in Switzerland, on a defined topic. The results of the surveys are scientifically processed and are available in bookshops . The publications contain a unique basic knowledge of the socio-political sensitivities of Swiss youth. This so-called youth monitoring was carried out for the first time in Switzerland more than 150 years ago and is also becoming increasingly important in European countries (e.g. Germany: Shell youth study ). This youth monitoring is comparable to a Pisa study , which is deliberately carried out on a national level and on a narrowly defined topic.

history

The Federal Youth Surveys, ch-x, have their origins in the PRP educational recruit tests. These were set up as federal funds from 1854 (based on Article 27 of the BV, which was in force until 1999). They were used by the federal government to monitor the effectiveness of the cantonal school systems and the educational level of young adults. Since the 1970s, in addition to educational research, they have served general youth research, particularly in the civic area and in the areas of health and sport. They are a unique institution in the world.

Federal youth surveys, ch-x

The surveys - designed as individual examinations until the 1960s and then as topic-focused youth surveys - used to take place in the recruiting schools. They therefore only recorded men who were fit for duty, but not those unfit for duty and those who refused to work. Since 2003, the surveys on the occasion of the recruitment have taken place in all recruitment centers (RZ). All men in Switzerland who are required to be employed can therefore be surveyed. The registration of those obliged to serve in the military, d. H. the large number of respondents is the prerequisite for a statistically credible breakdown of the findings according to language regions, cantons and districts in linguistically, culturally and educationally federalist Switzerland. This shows the political significance of the surveys. It also gives the reason for the connection to the Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport ( DDPS ).

In addition to those who are required to report to the data centers, around 2,400 young women across Switzerland have been surveyed using the same questionnaire since 2000. As a result, the surveys are now representative of 19 and 20 year old adults in Switzerland. The transition to youth representation and the survey in the data centers instead of in the recruit schools justifies the renaming in 2004 from “educational recruit examinations” to “ch-x, federal youth surveys”.

organization

The responsibility for the ch-x lies in the hands of the Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport ( VBS ). A commission appointed by the head of the DDPS controls the survey program and monitors the ongoing work. It guarantees political independence with regard to surveys and research. Around 200 people, mostly related to the teaching profession, throughout Switzerland are willing to carry out the surveys for a relatively small fee. The management is carried out by a 7-person management (director, scientific director and deputy, editor, adjuncts from three of the four language regions). A scientific advisory board (8 well-known Swiss scientists) guarantees the methodological and scientific quality of the studies. All ch-x employees work part-time.

aims

Federal youth surveys, ch-x

In terms of their original objective, the ch-x primarily serve the quality assurance of educational institutions (“ PISA of Switzerland”!). This is where the ch-x have achieved their greatest successes (e.g. establishment of advanced training and trade schools as a result of the recruiting tests in the 19th and 20th centuries) since the transition from individual knowledge tests to anonymous surveys in the late 1960s By means of cyclically repeated surveys, socio-politically important trends are determined in the following areas:

  1. Education, work and profession
  2. Health and sport
  3. Politics and Civil Responsibility

The functional expansion of the former EMD military department to include the VBS gave rise to targeted expansion of research in the field of health and sport.

Projects for surveys in the three fields are put out to tender every two years based on ch-x's own specifications. The Scientific Advisory Board makes a selection from the applications that are mostly received from Swiss university institutes. They take over the development of the survey concept and the data evaluation on their own responsibility. The ch-x coordinate the survey project, carry out the field surveys and the data acquisition, and promote the dissemination of knowledge using ch-x's own publication series.

Use

The results of the surveys are published in the scientific study series of the ch-x (Verlag Rüegger, Chur-Zurich) as well as in workshop reports published every two years. In particular, the workshop reports are sent specifically to the educational authorities of the cantons ( EDK , directorates, schools) and the institutions promoting education (science and research).

Federal youth surveys, ch-x

It has been proven that the studies on political-pedagogical education have recently influenced the methodological modernization of political science and economics classes at all levels, the surveys on subjective quality of life have not remained without consequences for spatial planning in Switzerland and the studies on the health of young adults have contributed to campaigns to effectively design preventive healthcare. Such studies would hardly be feasible without the broad data base, which only ch-x makes possible with its large number of respondents.

With the start of the project in 2010, the same questions about education, work, health, sport and civic engagement are to be repeated at regular intervals using the same questionnaire (joint project of the Universities of Geneva , Bern , Basel and the PH Zug ). This is intended to make trends and developments more visible than before. The long-term monitoring is intended to provide information on social change and to show the authorities at an early stage where the shoe pinches among young voters.

Federal statistical survey

The ch-x have always belonged to the Federal Military Department because more than 90% of the surveys are based on the young men who are required to be evicted. The connection to the army is an indispensable prerequisite for the organizational coordination of the surveys. Attempts to change departments were last checked and rejected in 2004. The DDPS is ultimately the federal department for youth, a fact that is underlined by the maintenance of its own youth monitoring system.

The ch-x are subject to the “Federal Statistical Surveys Act”; a representative of the Federal Statistical Office ( FSO ) has a seat on the ch-x commission and on the scientific advisory board as a member elected by the Federal Council. The FSO therefore has indirect control over the quality and method of the surveys. At the same time, this ensures that the ch-x do not parallelise BFS surveys . The ch-x are also not used in competition with the PISA surveys, but in addition in areas that are specific to the Swiss education system and therefore cannot be covered by international surveys. The ch-x cover national, not international interests.

The Swiss educational and social sciences actively use the ch-x institution. Helmut Fend, educator and youth researcher at the Universities of Konstanz and Zurich, stated in a basic paper on youth research in Switzerland that if the educational recruitment surveys or the ch-x in their unique construction did not exist, they would have to be created. Youth monitoring systems are being set up in most European countries (e.g. Germany: Shell Youth Study ) because current data on young people in the emerging age are of increasing socio-political importance.

literature

  • Werner Lustenberger: Pedagogical recruit exams. A contribution to Swiss school history . Verlag Rüegger, Chur 1996, ISBN 978-3-7253-0539-1
  • Luca Bertossa, Karl W. Haltiner, Ruth Meier Schweizer: Values ​​and Life Chances in Transition. A trend study on the life, education, work and political orientations of young adults in Switzerland. Federal Youth Surveys, Scientific Series, Volume 19, Verlag Rüegger, Chur 2008, ISBN 978-3-7253-0909-2
  • Deutsche Shell (Ed.) (2000): Jugend 2000. 13. Shell Youth Study. Opladen.
  • Deutsche Shell (Ed.) (2002): Youth 2002. 14. Shell Youth Study. Frankfurt / Main.
  • Deutsche Shell (Ed.) (2006): Jugend 2006. 15. Shell Youth Study. Frankfurt / Main.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Youth survey “ch-X” will be conducted by the University of Basel in 2012/13 , April 29, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unibas.ch  
  2. ^ Federal Youth Surveys: History
  3. Werner Lustenberger Werner: Pedagogical recruit exams. A contribution to Swiss school history . Verlag Rüegger, Chur 1996
  4. Federal Youth Surveys: Publications
  5. Scientific Studies Klöti / Risi 1991; Girod / Klöti / Dubs 1994, Meier-Dallach / Hohermuth / Walter 2003, Buschor / Bieri 2005
  6. Walter-Busch 1987-1987-1997
  7. Wydler / Gutzwiller et al. 1995