Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.56.1.2
Subjective Poverty of Youth in Rural Areas of Serbia
Sreten M. Jelić
; Sveučilište u Beogradu, Poljoprivredni fakultet, Srbija
Vukašin Kolarević
orcid.org/0000-0003-4543-8025
; Sveučilište u Beogradu, Poljoprivredni fakultet, Srbija
Abstract
Poverty is a complex phenomenon faced by youth too. The purpose of this
research is to determine the presence of the problem of poverty among youth in rural
areas of Serbia. Survey has been conducted in five villages of Paraćin municipality.
Exactly 98 young men and women took part in the survey, ages between 20 and 34,
and they were asked to answer questions regarding poverty, to estimate their own
poverty, and their own social exclusion. Desk research was supplemented with empirical
research in the mentioned areas. Results of research conducted in the field are
represented in the second part of this paper. In order to perceive the position and
poverty of youth, their satisfaction with their living environment, and social exclusion
of youth, we relied on the questionnaire that enables expressing subjective welfare.
Data obtained through research indicate that one in ten subjects of the survey is poor.
The surveyed subjects belonging to the oldest age group (30-34 years of age) and
residents of settlements in the vicinity of municipality’s center are in a more unfavorable
position. Survey results show that the young in rural areas have been facing the
problem of their own poverty to a great extend during their lives. Social exclusion was
recorded with 42% of the subjects, who claimed that they had felt isolated from the
community at some point in the past two years, due to lack of money.
Keywords
subjective poverty; youth; rural areas; social exclusion
Hrčak ID:
195270
URI
Publication date:
12.3.2018.
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