Ethnic Minority Youth in Denmark

This report paints a broad picture of daily life for 18-year-old ethnic minority youth in Denmark today, compared with their Danish majority contemporaries. The report covers a number of topics such as family situation and resources, education, health and well-being, friends and leisure, drugs, alcohol and crime as well as sexuality and expectations for the future.

In general, the survey shows that ethnic minority youth often have fewer resources, often live in larger families and their lives often contain a more marked difference between the two genders compared to the circumstances of Danish majority youths.

This survey is primarily based on questionnaire responses from almost 900 youths with backgrounds in 118 different countries. Researchers have compared these responses with replies from SFI's major longitudinal study of people born in 1995, which contains responses from 4,000 Danish youths.

Data collection among the ethnic minority youths was funded by the public pool of funds and SFI funded the analyses and preparation of the report.