Design and methodology of collecting data on youth leaving institutional care

Abstract

There is a lot of children in institutional care in the people after they leave institutional care because data on them are not systematically collected. This paper presents the design and methodology of a primary data collection in a research project on factors influencing care leavers. This paper discusses project methodology, the design of data collection and its limits, the availability of data, how non-response bias will be handled, the burdens of data collection streaming from the GDPR, etc. It also reflects the approaches of preliminary researches.The paper presents the methodology of collecting data; provides guidelines for other researchers, and, in the future, the results of the research might provide basis for those who make decisions regarding the system of institutional care.