Survey of Young People in Egypt
Council researchers conducted a nationally representative survey covering 15,000 young people in Egypt aged 10–29 to update the state of knowledge on youth and adolescents in Egypt on issues of health, education, employment, family formation, and civic participation.
Egypt is at a stage in its demographic transition with a marked "youth bulge," a period in which the proportion of youth in the population increases significantly compared to other age groups. In the coming decade, Egypt will have the largest demographic cohort ever making its way to adulthood. Young people are important catalysts for development and change. Investment in this crucial age group provides an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate growth and reduce poverty. Success or failure in policies in the areas of education, employment, or health will have a decisive impact on this cohort of young people. Owing to the dearth of data on youth, the Population Council has recently conducted a comprehensive situation analysis of adolescents and youth in Egypt: The Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE).
Recently fielded on a nationally representative sample of 15,000 young people aged 10–29 years, the survey collected data on the five key areas of education, work, family formation, health and sexuality, and civic and political participation. Council researchers currently are participating in writing Egypt’s Human Development Report, this year focusing on youth, building on the data of the survey. A report on the results of the survey has just been released.
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Challenges facing the Egyptian education system: Access, quality, and inequality (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 2)
Publication date: 2012
Challenges facing the Egyptian education system: Access, quality, and inequality [Arabic] (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 2)
Publication date: 2012
Female disadvantage in the Egyptian labor market: A youth perspective (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 4)
Publication date: 2012
Female disadvantage in the Egyptian labor market: A youth perspective [Arabic] (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 4)
Publication date: 2012
Is early childhood care and education a good investment for Egypt? Estimates of educational impacts, costs, and benefits (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 3)
Publication date: 2012
Is early childhood care and education a good investment for Egypt? Estimates of educational impacts, costs, and benefits [Arabic] (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 3)
Publication date: 2012
The reproductive health of young people in Egypt (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 1)
Publication date: 2012
The reproductive health of young people in Egypt [Arabic] (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 1)
Publication date: 2012
Youth perspectives on entrepreneurship in Egypt: Barriers to entrepreneurship as a means to combat youth unemployment (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 5)
Publication date: 2012
Youth perspectives on entrepreneurship in Egypt: Barriers to entrepreneurship as a means to combat youth unemployment [Arabic] (PDF)
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Survey of Young People in Egypt Policy Brief (no. 5)
Publication date: 2012
"Survey of Young People in Egypt: Summary of results," fact sheet (HTML)
Publication date: 2010
Survey of Young People in Egypt: Final report and data sets (PDF)
Final report
Publication date: 2010
Survey of Young People in Egypt: Final report and data sets [Arabic] (PDF) (HTML)
Publication date: 2010
Survey of young people in Egypt: Preliminary report (PDF)
Publication date: 2010
Addressing Yemen's twin deficits: Human development and natural resources (HTML)
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from Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East, pp. 211-239
Publication date: 2009
Rising expectations and diminishing opportunities for Egypt's young (HTML)
Assaad,Ragui; Barsoum,Ghada; Dhillon,Navtej; Yousef,Tarik
from Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East, pp. 67-94
Publication date: 2009
Project Stats
Location: Egypt
Program(s):
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
Topic(s):
Financial literacy/livelihoods
Schooling
Sexuality and sexual behavior
Duration: 3/2008 - ongoing
Non-Council collaborators:
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
Information and Decision Support Center
National Center for Exams and Educational Evaluation
Donors:
Canadian International Development Agency
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
The Ford Foundation
The World Bank
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Development Fund for Women
United Nations Development Program
United Nations Population Fund
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