The Global Survey on Youth and COVID-19 (the Survey),was conducted by partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Job,including the International Labour Organization,the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth,AIESEC,the European Youth Forum,the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The online survey,available in 23 languages,was conducted between 21 April and 21 May 22 and taken by 12,65 individuals aged 18–34 years from 112 countries.
This technical annex describes the survey promotion in Section I,the dataset and key outcome variables in Section II,explains the survey weighting methodology and presents alternative approaches in Section III,examines the representativeness of the survey sample with regard to survey respondents’ educational background and income in Section IV,and presents the results of robustness in Section V.