The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s perspectives on the future

This research note is structured as follows. The first section reviews the findings of international surveys, followed by a brief overview of Member States’ national surveys. The second section introduces a normal survey for this study that was conducted in five countries. It sets out the purpose, methodology and implementation, then describes the survey results, focusing on differences in outcomes and trends between young people (under-30s) and older people (over-30s). The research note closes with a concluding section.