A questionnaire in seven languages: Climate change is a concern for young people, but how does this influence their mobility choices?
3.1.2 Mostly well-educated young adults
As regards level of education, the number of respond- ents with a higher-education entrance qualification is highest within the German-language group (59.6 %). The Turkish- and Chinese-language groups have the larg- est share of respondents with a bachelor’s or master’s degree (Turkish: 68.1 %; Chinese: 50.8 %). The Estonian language group includes a large proportion of young adults with a qualification from a lower secondary school or vocational college (40.0 %).
As regards the highest educational qualification of par- ticipants’ parents, the group of respondents whose parents had a university or college degree was largest acrossalllanguages,andparticularlyhighintheFinnishand Estonian language groups (Finnish: 75.0 %; Estonian: 63.8 %). In the Chinese-language group, most partici- pants had parents with a school-leaving qualification (41.9 %). This group was also prominent within the Turkish-language group (31.8 %). 3
Language
German Estonian Finnish French Turkish Chinese
Total
Lower secondary school or vocational college
1.7 % 40.0 % 23.2 % 14.3 % 0.9 % 0.0 %
87
Upper secondary school
7.2 % 21.7 % 34.1 % 1.4 % 12.1 % 5.1 %
111
University entrance qualification University (Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree)
59.6 % 10.0 % 7.3 % 36.9 % 18.1 % 42.4 %
553
28.7 % 28.3 % 35.4 % 47.0 % 68.1 % 50.8 %
457
University (PhD)
1.4 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.9 % 1.7 %
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None
1.3 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.5 % 0.0 % 0.0 %
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Total
696
60
82
217
116
59
1,230
Fig. 4 Educational qualifications
Language
German Estonian Finnish French Turkish Chinese
Total
School-leaving qualification(s)
4.1 % 3.4 % 3.8 % 15.6 % 31.8 % 41.9 %
117
Vocational qualification 32.4 % 19.0 % 12.5 % 27.1 % 19.1 % 11.6 %
320
University or college degree
50.0 % 63.8 % 75.0 % 49.7 % 43.6 % 44.2 %
601
PhD
13.5 % 13.8 % 8.8 % 7.5 % 5.5 % 2.3 %
128
Total
676
58
80
199
110
43
1,166
Fig. 5 Parents’ educational level
3 The German version of the questionnaire omitted the option „Master’s degree“. Users of the German-language version hence were unable to select this option, meaning no data is available concerning this qualification.
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