grundtvig project „ young and adults for a better life “

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The The Generation Gap Generation Gap QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

• At the beginning of September we translated the questionnaire from English to Czech language.

• Between September and October our team of social workers spread questionnare in some parts of Ostrava city and close suroundings.

• We made about 140 lists of questionnaire, just 100 of them went back to us.

• We composed and analysed the data in Microsoft Office Excel and than created the graphs in special programming system called Matlab.

The The Generation Gap Generation Gap QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

• Numbers of respondents according to gender

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Male Female

41 % 59 %

The The Generation Generation Gap Gap

QuestionnaireQuestionnaire• Numbers of respondents according to age

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Age Numbers of respondents

14 - 18 13 %

19 - 22 11 %

23 - 30 19 %

31 - 40 14 %

41 - 50 12 %

51 - 60 17 %

61 - 70 9 %

over 70 5 %

The The Generation Generation Gap QuestionnaireGap Questionnaire

• Numbers of respondents according to last school graduated

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Last school graduated Numbers of respondents

Primary school 22 %

Middle school 5 %

Vocational school 23 %

High school 20 %

Post-high school 3 %

College 18 %

University 9 %

Post graduate studies

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The The Generation Generation Gap Gap

QuestionnaireQuestionnaire• Numbers of respondents

according to area of residence

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Urban Rural

80 % 20 %

1. How would you describe the generation gap?

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2. Choose five of the factors listed below you think that are sources of conflict between generations.

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3. How does the generation gap manifest itself? By …

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4. Do you consider the conflict between

generation as a problem for society?

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4.1. Yes, because it …

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4.2. No, because …

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5. Do you consider the conflict between generations as a

phenomenon that occurs only among very young people and the

very old?

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5.1. Yes, because the very young and the very old:

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5.2. No, because people close in age

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6. Do you think the generation gap is mainly

a form of:

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7. Between what ranges of age is the generation gap

felt more strongly?

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8. In which of the areas listed below the generation gap manifests stronger?

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9. In general, how do you react when you experience a conflict

between generations?

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10. Can the generation gap be mitigated?

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10. 1. If yes, what do you think it should be done?

(multiple answers)

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11. Based on your personal experience, please, list the

problemations created by the generation gap.

Any of the respondents did not answer this question in correct way.

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12. Based on your personal experience tell us what you have

learned from the conflict between generations. I have learned that:

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13. How far it is hard to work on the same team with

young/old?

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14. How hard is it to accept the ideas of

young people/ elderly?

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15. Do you think that you have something to learn from the young/ the old?

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16. To what extent do you think people from different

generations may have common ideas?

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17. Who do you think suffers more from the

conflict between generations?

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Disadvantages of the questionnaire

• The questionnaire was too long, especially for children about 15 years old, they had trouble to concentrated on it. It was not sutaible for this target group.

• Some of the questions were so difficut to understand them, it was difficult also for social worker to expained it to children, elderly and people from social excluded area.

• The questionnaire contained lots of specific terminology, young people did not understand some of the terms. (for example: generation gap, attitudes, value, ect.)

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Disadvantages of the questionnaire

• Some of the questions were not so clear and intelligible.

• Respondets wanted to choose more that one options of answers but it was no possible.

• All the respondets had the biggest problem with question number 11. They did not answered it correctly.

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