Youth in Türkiye increasingly pessimistic, shows survey

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According to young people, Türkiye's most critical problems are the economy, justice, and education, shows a new survey by the Sociology Alumni Association (SOMDER).

The survey indicated that 96.3 percent of the respondents, aged 18-35, believed that people were unhappy.

Women employees seemed happier than male employees. 60.9 percent of men employees stated that they were"unhappy" compared to 53,1 for women. When asked, "Whether they would continue their work," 54.8 percent answered "Yes," and 41.8 percent answered "No."

To the question "What are the three most important problems that need to be solved urgently in Türkiye?", 20.3 percent of the participants said that "economy" came first, "justice" came second with 18.1 percent, and "education" ranked third with 15.7 percent. Other factors were poverty (12.5 percent), unemployment (12.4 percent), asylum seekers (11.5 percent) and health (8.9 percent).

When asked "When you consider your standard of living and expectations, is your situation better than a year ago?"82.4 percent responded that "it got worse," and 8.6 percent said, "it remained the same", while the rate of those who said it got better was only 9.0 percent.

"Do you think your situation will get better next year", 65 percent of the interviewees responded that "it will get worse," 20.1 percent believed that "it will get better," and 13 percent stated, "it will stay the same." (RT/WM/VK)