AID:A 2019 NRW⁺

In addition to the AID:A 2019 main sample, a supplementary sample of additional households in NRW is therefore surveyed at the end of 2019. The design is set up in such a way that all key areas of work pursued as part of AID:A 2019 can be evaluated in depth and also contextualized regionally. With the help of this addition, there is also sufficient coverage of less densely populated areas in NRW to be able to carry out targeted analyses for a single federal state as well as smaller territorial units within it.

In addition, questions that are specifically relevant to the high proportion of children and young people in the overall population of NRW will be evaluated in depth. The project therefore focuses in particular on patterns of use and medium-term effects of the use of child and youth welfare services and youth work. In the area of child and youth welfare, there is little empirical evidence available on its effects on its addressees. Although it is ascribed an important social function for young people growing up (Deutscher Bundestag 2017; Rauschenbach et al. 2010), the literature is extremely heterogeneous. AID:A 2019 offers the opportunity to go beyond surveys on leisure activities and voluntary engagement of children and young people (e.g. Albert 2015) and take into account further framework conditions of the respondents' life situations, values and future prospects. Further links in the evaluation of aspects of the use of child and youth services and youth work will therefore be the leisure activities of children and young people, their education in various (especially non-formal) contexts and their social relationships.

To enable more extensive analyses of the population of children, adolescents, and their families in NRW, an expansion sample is recruited specifically in NRW after the field phase of the main AID:A 2019 sample. For this purpose, an additional 1,300 households in NRW are drawn in a way that, taken together with the AID:A 2019 main sample, all counties and independent cities are included and areas of coarser clustering (administrative districts or regions) can be analyzed comparatively. The overall design of the survey is also based on the AID:A 2019 main survey. Using the AID:A 2019 questionnaire, face-to-face interviews are conducted in the households of the respondents. All household members and thus target persons themselves, respondents representing young children, and parents of underage target subjects will have their say.