Citizens Advice Scotland has launched its first ever national survey of young people in Scotland.

The 'Being Young Being Heard' survey, using the networking site Facebook (search 'Citizens Advice Scotland: Being Young Being Heard'), is open to all people in Scotland aged between 16-25 (inclusive). It focuses on their experience of the recession, and on their hopes and fears of the future of the economy. The survey is online now on the CAS website. Paper copies are also available on request from all of Scotland's 83 CABs.

CAS Acting Chief Executive Susan McPhee has said,

"Young Scots are our future, yet people very rarely ask them directly what they think. With this survey we want to put that right. In particular, we want to give Scotland's youth an opportunity to tell us what they think of the economic situation - both in terms of how it has impacted on them already and how they think it will affect them in the future.

"Surveys of young people tend to concentrate only on those in higher education. But we want to include all of Scotland's youth, not just university students. Facebook allows us to do that. Every young Scot who can connect to a computer has the opportunity to have their say - and we hope they all will.

"That includes students and non-students, those who are working and those who are unemployed, those still living with their parents and those who have started out on their own, those who were born in Scotland and those who have come here from elsewhere. In fact anyone who is based in Scotland today and who is between the ages of 16-25 can take part.

"It's very exciting. We don't know what the results will be, but we are determined to listen, and to respond accordingly."

The survey is designed so it can be completed in just a few minutes, though some of the questions are open enough that participants can choose to give more information if they like.

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