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The Interconnection of Online and Offline Spaces in Sweden’s Rural Youth Career Learning Cover

The Interconnection of Online and Offline Spaces in Sweden’s Rural Youth Career Learning

Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance

Volume 3 (2022): Issue 1

By: Anna Pallin

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Demographic Characteristics of Rural Respondents.

CHARACTERISTICS	SUBGROUP	N	VALID RESPONSES (%)
Study program	Vocational Programme	113	43.3
	Higher Education Preparatory Programme	148	56.7
	Missing	6
Sex	Female	156	63.2
	Male	91	36.8
	Missing	20
Total number of participants		267

Table 2

Students’ use of online tools and websites when seeking to learn about education and work. Frequencies are quoted as percentages of the number of valid responses.

	N
	VALID	MISSING	NO USE	OCCASIONAL USE	REGULAR USE
Activities
Individual	252	15	2.8	57.8	39.4
Social	246	21	10.2	81.0	8.8
Automated	255	12	27.1	51.7	21.2
Websites
Higher education info.	254	13	19.7	45.7	34.6
Labour market info.	249	18	24.1	64.5	11.4
Social media	257	10	27.2	38.9	33.9
Vocational education info.	253	14	54.9	31.7	13.4

Table 3

Students’ evaluations of the value of different sources of career information. Scores range from not at all important (0) to very important (1).

	N		MEAN	STD DEVIATION
	VALID	MISSING	MEAN	STD DEVIATION
Social space
Online	240	27	0.65	0.31
Family	241	26	0.63	0.25
Education	208	59	0.56	0.26
Work life	206	61	0.55	0.30

Table 4

Pearson correlations for perceived importance of career resources from different social spaces. ***= p < 0.001.

	ONLINE	FAMILY	EDUCATION	WORK
Online		0.39***	0.47***	0.10
Family	0.39***		0.55***	0.32***
Education	0.48***	0.55***		0.58***
Work	0.10	0.32***	0.58***

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/njtcg.45 | Journal eISSN: 2003-8046

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Language: English

Page range: 53 - 67

Submitted on: Dec 16, 2021

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Accepted on: Dec 16, 2022

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Published on: Dec 28, 2022

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Career learning,

Career information

© 2022 Anna Pallin, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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