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Planet Youth Survey: Galway, Mayo, Roscommon 2022

Study number (SN): 0071-03

CITATION 

ABOUT THE STUDY 

The Planet Youth study administers a lifestyle questionnaire to 15–16-year-olds in the target community.

In this instance the target community was all 91 of the post primary schools, and Youthreach Centres, in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.

Major topics covered in the questionnaire include substance use, peer factors, family factors, school experience, leisure activities, internet and screen use, self-reported physical and mental health, sleep, bullying, adverse life experiences.

The purpose of the study is to examine the risk and protective factors in the lives and social environment of young people and to generate the data that will inform the development of community-based interventions to address same.

Interventions developed are in the four domains of:

1. Parents and Family
2. School
3. Leisure time and local community
4. Peer group

The first Planet Youth (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon) data collection was in October 2018 and PAPI self-compilation. The second Planet Youth (Galway, Mayo, Roscommon) data collection was in December 2020 and also PAPI self-compilation. This data collection was in November 2022 and used a CASI method for the first time.  Alchemer was the survey platform used.

MAIN TOPICS 

• Well-being (Health)
• Substance use 
• Mental health
• Physical activities
• Family environment
• Educational environment
• Internet use
• Bullying

COVERAGE, UNIVERSE, METHODOLOGY 

Population 

The target group was 15-16 year students in their post Junior Certificate year in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. All 81 post-primary schools and 10 Youthreach centres in the region were included in the study.

Observation units 

• Individuals

Temporal coverage 

From 11/2022 to 12/2022

Time dimension  

Repeated cross-sectional study. This cross-sectional study was first conducted in 2018 was repeated in 2020 and 2022.  Further surveys are planned for 2024, 2026 and 2028.

Geographical coverage 

Country: Ireland

Region: West

County: Galway, Mayo, Roscommon

Methods of data collection 

• CASI (Computer Assisted Self Interviewing). Alchemer was the survey platform used.

Sampling procedures 

Based on a pre-defined sampling frame 

All students in their post Junior Cert year in the 81 post-primary schools and 10 Youthreach centres in the region were invited to participate.

A passive consent process was used. Each student and each student’s parent or guardian was separately informed of the purpose and content of the survey and each were given the opportunity to abstain.

Response rate 

A total of 5,277 valid records are in the Planet Youth 2022 GMR dataset. These are pupils at all ages.

The general target group is 15 and 16 year old pupils in their fourth year of secondary school. In Ireland this means post junior certificate students on their return to school after the summer.  The majority of these pupils go into Transition Year, but some go into 5th year.  We have some schools in GMR that do compulsory TY and one that has no TY.  As it can make it complicated for some schools to isolate their post JC 5th year pupils to do the survey, the option is offered to them to survey all of their TY and 5th year groups.  Amongst the smaller schools and Youthreach Centres some schools choose to survey all of their senior cycle students. This is why there are older pupils in the dataset.

The Department of Education identified 6,095 junior certificate sits in the GMR Region in 2022.  Galway 3,668, Mayo 1,794, and Roscommon 633.

There are 4,128 pupils within the full dataset that answered yes to question 3) Did you sit the Junior Certificate earlier this year? This gives a response rate of 67.7%.

The missing 32.3% are predominately pupils unavailable on the planned day of the survey due to absenteeism or other commitments such as sports trips or work experience etc. Additionally, some schools in the region had a more difficult time with their technology and so had lower response rates than others.

A total of 40 students across the region self-excluded from the survey (25 by parents, 15 by self).  

DATA AND DOCUMENTATION: FILES’ DESCRIPTION  

Data (available through ISSDA application process) 

Documentation (available for download) 

LINKS 

https://planetyouth.org (Icelandic international site)

https://planetyouth.ie (Irish site includes municipal reports)

ACCESS INFORMATION 

Accessing the data 

To access the data, please complete a ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, sign it, and send it to ISSDA by email.

For teaching purposes, please complete the ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, and follow the procedures, as above. Teaching requests are approved on a once-off module/workshop basis. Subsequent occurrences of the module/workshop require a new teaching request form.

Data will be disseminated on receipt of a fully completed, signed form. Incomplete or unsigned forms will be returned to the data requester for completion.

Copyright 

Joint copyright to the dataset belongs to the Western Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force and the Department of Public Health, HSE West. The copyright to the 2022 Planet Youth Questionnaire belongs with Planet Youth in Reykjavik.

Acknowledgements 

Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by the ISSDA, should  acknowledge: “Planet Youth 2022" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.

Citation requirement 

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical citation 

Western Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Force and the Department of Public Health, HSE West (2024). Planet Youth Survey: Galway, Mayo, Roscommon 2022 [dataset]. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0071-03. https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/planetyouth/planetyouth2022/

Notification 

The user shall notify the Irish Social Science Data Archive of all publications where she or he has used the data.