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Study: The highest degree of happiness of the young Romanians is recorded in Iasi; at the other end is Constanta
The highest level of happiness of the young Romanians is recorded in Iasi, while the lowest level is in Constanta, and on a scale from 1 to 10, the average of the level of happiness for the young people of Romania is 6.69, shows a specialty study, published on the occasion of the Youth Day by the Council of the Youth from Romania, the PONT group, the Federation of the Youth from Cluj and the Commercial Romanian Bank, as members of the governance of the programme ‘ The Capital City of the Youth in Romania’.
According to the research entitled ‘ The youth after the pandemics : Happy cities’ on average, the young people who answered the survey show the level of happiness in their cities with 5.99/10, then the degree of safety felt is over the average (6.63/10) and for pro-activity, the cities received 6.25/10.
At the same time, the highest level of happiness of the youth is recorded in Iasi, the lowest in Constanta,while Cluj-Napoca is perceived as the cleanest and unied city, and Iasi as the most accessible.
At the same time, 6 out of 10 young people consider that their cities have adapted efficiently to the pandemics, and two out of six people would like to get involved in the future in actions of volunteering to help the development of their cities.
In general, on a scale from 1 to 10, the level of happiness of the youth of Romania is 6.69.
According to the acquisition of their own residence is a very important topic, correlated to the degree of satisfaction felt by the young people. Thus, an analysis made by the Council of Youth in Romania shows the fact that the majority of the young people aged between 18 and 34 live with their parents (57.8% against 49.4% on average in EU27 according to Eurostat).The average age when they leave their parents’ home is 27.9.
According to the quoted source, 8.4% of the Romanian youth between 15 and 29, live in households which use more than 40% from the income for expenses with their residence, 64.7% live in overpopulated households (reported to 27.5% the EU average) and 21.9% suffer from the lack of low quality of the residence (6.5% EU average).
The specialty analysis shows that, from 2015 to 2020, the cost of the rent has increased by 10%. An average rent for a one-room apartment in Bucharest or Cluj is 87.3% of the minimum net salary, while a rent for a two-room apartment 129.66% of the minimum net salary, show the specialists.
The study ‘ the Youth after the pandemics : Happy Cities’ was made on a sample of over 5,000 young peope aged between 15 and 29, from the six capitals of the youth in Romania : Cluj-Napoca, Targu Jiu, Timisoara, Bacau, Constanta, Baia Mare and Iasi. The survey measured some of the essential aspects of the life of the young people, such as: how happy they are, which is the degree of safety which they feel in the city they live in, and which are the things which could be improved.
The capital city of the youth in Romania is a framework programme for the young people, created at national level, which functions on similar principles with those of the European Capital of Youth (European Youth Capital – www.europeanyouthcapital.org).
The governance of the programme Youth Capital of Romania is made up of the Council of Youth Romania, the Federation of Youth from Cluj, the PONT group and the Commercial Romanian Bank.