YOUTH PROBLEMS TO BE PROBED

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5302, 15 January 1947, Page 7

YOUTH PROBLEMS TO BE PROBED

DANISH INVESTIGATIONS COPENHAGEN A nation- wide investigation into the problems and needs of presentday youth is starting in Denmark. It is to be carried out by the recently appointed Youth Gommission under the chairmanship of Prof. Hal Knock, known for his work for Danish youth, and will be completed ahout the middle of February. It will investigate the conditions of activities of a cross section of 10,000 of Denmark's 650,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 and the final report compiled by the Commission will serve as the basis for the Government's re-organisation of Danish youth legislation. Some 250 interrogators will carry out the investigation, visiting the young people in their homes and questioning them in accordance with prepared questionnaires aimed at providing details of their education, working and housing conditions, income, hobbies and other means of occupying their spare time.

They will be asked to tell, for instance, whether they visit one movie regularly or whether the films being shown decide which movie they shall patronise, whether they have learned to dance, what books they read, what •kind of radiocast interests them and what spare oceupation they would like $o take up if they could do so without having to consider limitations of space or such factors as residenee in country places where town amenities are not easily reached.

'Each interrogator will talk to the youn°~ person being imterviewed for about half an hour, preferably at home so that an idea can be formed of the milieu and conditions in which he or she lives. In all cases the talks will take place in private to avoid direct or indirect influence by parents, friends, or employers and all information provided will be strictly confidential. No names will be mentioned in the final repoi't.