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Have you ever masturbated? New RTÉ survey wants to know all about young Irish adults

The survey asks a range of questions from the political to the personal.

HAVE YOU EVER smoked a joint with your parents? Have you ever had a threesome? How often do you watch porn? Does everyone have equal education opportunities?

These are some of the questions contained in a new online survey being delivered by RTÉ in partnership with 11 other EU countries.

The survey is a joint effort by the European Broadcasting Union to to try to get a better picture of the habits and mindsets of 18 to 34-year-olds in Europe, what the survey organisers are calling generation Y.

The survey and project is called Generation What?, and consists of 149 questions that fall into five broad categories:

  • Family (parents, siblings, couples, children)
  • Peers (friends, their generation, youth in general)
  • Self (the body, sexuality, self-image, feelings)
  • Society (institutions, values, work, workplace)
  • The future (for self, for children, dreams, fears)

You enter your age, post code, gender, education and job description and as the questions progress you can get live updates on how other people within these categories are answering. For example:

Surbey Q Happy life results Generation What Generation What

After you have completed the provisional results of the survey, you can check out the percentages of what answers other people chose.

The questions

The questions can range from politically vague queries about Europe to deeply personal ones about sexuality, relationships and beliefs.

Survey Q happy life

They range from simple agree/disagree answers towards answers on scale and multiple options.

Other questions are very specific:

jpint smok eparents Generation What Generation What

Across the range of questions, samples include:

  • Do you have friends in Europe?
  • Have you ever had sex with someone of the same sex?
  • Do you feel fulfilled in your job?
  • Do you think there’s a European national identity?
  • Have you ever masturbated?

The point of all this

So after the surveys have been taken and the results are in, RTÉ says that it will use the data to “help build a coherent and reliable ensemble of material” that will form the basis of two television documentaries to be broadcast in late-2016.

The purpose is to see what makes young people in Ireland tick and how they relate with the rest of the EU, in order for RTÉ to deliver a “detailed and revelatory perspective on how young Irish people live their lives today”.

You can take the survey at www.generation-what.ie

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:34 PM

    Amazing that you win one match, and you get into the qualifers

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:36 PM

    @The Firestarter: the would have got in even if they lost against France, tho likely unseeded

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:55 PM

    @The Firestarter: what are you talking about?

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    Jul 19th 2024, 2:39 PM

    @The Firestarter: kinda hard not to qualify

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    Jul 19th 2024, 10:58 PM

    @The Firestarter: zzzzzzzzzz

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    @john kenny: zz

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:44 PM

    Big hard man Damien O’Sullivan giving pelters to women who have achieved more in their lives than he ever will. Damien, you are a troll on the Internet and these woman are representing their country. They stand head and shoulders above people like you. Let that sink in.

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    Jul 19th 2024, 2:39 PM

    @Sun Rise: As ever you are brave behind your keyboard and fake name. The fact you call people trolls while trolling the internet behind tells a lot about the person behind the account.

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    Jul 19th 2024, 4:12 PM

    @Ger Whelan: you are a vicious piece of work. He is defending the womens team show respect boy.

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    Jul 19th 2024, 4:24 PM

    @Sean Money: was it Putin’s fault the girls didn’t win all their games?

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    @Ger Whelan: you are a sick puppy. Be happy Ireland won.

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    Jul 19th 2024, 6:27 PM

    @Sean Money: Erm they didn’t win . They finished bottom of their group with 1 win out of 5 games. Hardly worth celebrating

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    Jul 19th 2024, 9:56 PM

    @Sun Rise: I reported you just now.
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    I repeat. The current team is useless they were much better under Vera. Constructive criticism, not some misogynistic agenda you’re pushing.
    Suck on that.

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    Jul 20th 2024, 12:09 AM

    @Sun Rise: God help the team if they have likes of you ‘looking out’ for them.
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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:19 PM

    Good draw

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:29 PM

    They’re useless

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    @Damien O’Sullivan: i hope your talking about FFG,,,

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    Jul 19th 2024, 1:58 PM

    @Damien O’Sullivan: Damien give that phone back to your mother until you mature a bit like a good little boy.

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    Jul 19th 2024, 9:49 PM

    @James Leahy: Just criticising the current team. They were better under Vera.
    Why don’t you run off and troll elsewhere fool. You have no idea what you’re talking about

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    Nobody is interested in women’s soccer, it’s just not very good

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    Jul 19th 2024, 4:10 PM

    No stopping them now after they beat France so easily

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