The participants in the weekly jongerenklimaatmarsen are, on average, 17.5 years old, come mainly from general secondary education (ASO) and see focus mainly on Green votes. This is evident from a sample of the UAntwerpen, and the VUB. It is striking that about the same amount of girls as boys participate in the marches, while women tend to be under-represented on the street.
Between 24 January and 12 February bevroegen the universities 510 followers of the Facebook page, Youth for Climate, Kyra Gantois and Anuna, The Weaver. “It’s going to be a self-selection sample,” says researcher Ruud Wouters. “That is not representative for the participants in the jongerenklimaatmarsen. As it is, but 8.5 percent of our respondents are French-speaking, while their share under the klimaatspijbelaars probably a suit is greater. But our research still allows us to get accurate comparisons, for example between young people who participated in a march, and young people who did not yet do so.”
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Two-thirds of the survey participants were female and one third male. On the question of whether they are effectively already meestapten in one of the demonstrations, and answered, 54,4 percent of the female respondents positive, compared to 57,3 percent of the male youth. Wouters: “Both sexes take equal part in the klimaatacties. That is punishment: research has shown that men in particular protest and that women are under-represented on the street. With the klimaatspijbelaars we see that this participatiekloof between men and women poem.”
on Average, bosbrosser 17.5 years old. Of the respondents who already have at least one demonstration took part, more than 74 percent from the ASO. Almost 10 percent comes from the TSO. 58,8 percent of those who have already skipped to the climate, also took part in the Rise for Climate march Sunday 27 January.
On the day of the survey saw 56.7 percent of the respondents are in Green votes. 12 percent don’t know, 9 percent would, on the PVDA-PTB-GO vote.
Greta Thunberg
Today in Brussels a new klimaatmars place. Also the Swedish klimaatactiviste Greta Thunberg (16) will participate in the demonstration. She traveled specially to our country. The demonstration will start at 13 hours, an hour and a half later the previous editions, at the north station and from there through the heart of the capital city to the final destination, the gare du midi to withdraw. There will be Thunberg and the bezielsters of Youth for Climate to 17 hours in the Pensioentoren a press conference.
