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Life In Low Income Families In Scotland: Research Report
ANNEX FIVE: TOPIC GUIDE, YOUNG PEOPLE
LEGEND
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Part 1: Everyday Experiences of Life on a Low Income (1a)
General Issues
1. How do you feel about the area you live in? What are the good things and the bad things? (1)
2. What's life like for people/children your age living in your area? (2)
3. And what about for other people. What's life in your area like for (i) older people (ii) parents (iii) younger children? (3)
4. Apart from going to school, what do teenagers/children your age living in your area tend to do (i) on weekdays (ii) weekends?
Frames of reference and Community Experience
5. Can you tell how well or badly off people are? How?
6. So, who would you say are the young people in your area who are the least well-off, or the poorest? (4)
7. Do you think people are treated differently by others if they are less well-off? How? (6)
Managing on a low income, Monetary issues
8. Do you have your own money?
9. Is that important to you?
10. What do you do with it?
11. Where do most young people like you get their money from?
12. Do you have enough money to do and buy the things that you want?
13. So, if you don't have enough money, what do you do?
14. What would change, what would be easier to do, on a regular basis if you had more money? (9)
15. Most people try to make the most of what they've got. Are there ways that young people can make sure that they enjoy life, even if their family does not have a lot of money? (11)
Managing on a low income, Non- Monetary issues
16. Not having a lot of money can put a strain on families, but it can also bring families closer together. What do you think about that? (12)
17. Do most of your friends have the same amount of money as you?
18. As for families, living on a low income can put a strain on friendship, but it can also bring friends closer together. Can you tell me how you've seen the lack of money affect friendships among young people? (13)
Temporal issues
19. Have you always had the same amount of money as you have now? What about things you own, have you always had the same amount of things as you have now? (16)
20. What happens for things which need additional cash, such as buying birthday presents, going school trips, going trips with [organisation]? (17)
21. What happens when you have to find money for unexpected expenses, such as [when your friends decide they want to go to the Cinema]? (18)
PART 2: VIEWS OF POVERTY AND POLICY
22. How would you define poverty? (23)
23. How is that some people end up having less or being poorer than others? (5)
24. In your local area or community is anything being done to improve things for poorer people? (26)
25. Do you think the government is doing anything to tackle poverty? (24)
26. Could anybody be doing anything more to improve things for people experiencing poverty? (25 and 27)
PART 3: END NOTES
27. What about the future. What do you see yourself doing when you leave school?
28. Just to finish, I know we're only giving you a 10 token, but if you were to find yourself a 100 richer tomorrow, what would you do with the money? (28) .
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