What's behind this survey? The Scottish Executive Education Department and YouthLink Scotland aim to collect regular data to give policymakers and service providers a sense of what young people enjoy doing and what they would like to do more of. Along the way, they are asking about the awareness and attitudes of their young people towards the Scottish Parliament.
Who did they ask? Mori, the market researchers, selected a specific sector, a large sample of 2,150 11- to 16-year-olds ("pupils") and 1,028 17- to 25-year-olds ("young people").
And what do young Scots like to get up to? Not that surprisingly, the top activities were listening to music and watching television or DVDs. There were some predictable gender differences - girls are more likely than boys to chat on the phone to friends (83 per cent of female pupils compared with 58 per cent of males) and go shopping (86 per cent with 41 per cent). Boys, though, are far more likely to play computer games (88 per cent with 45 per cent).
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