Volunteering hours for youth voluntary service

The package includes volunteer hours registered by youth volunteers of the Youth Agency in the host organisation (“PO”). Volunteering is open to persons aged between 14 and 29. Within a 6-month period, after gathering at least 240 hours of volunteering (at least 35 hours per month), volunteers receive a certificate confirming the right to an additional admission point of 0.25 to Lithuanian higher education institutions. The package refers only to the name and field of activity of the organisation organising voluntary activities (“SVO”), without specifying the address, since only the address of the establishment and not the voluntary activity is recorded. The volunteer's gender (“dedicated” _gender) is determined from the volunteer's name. If the gender cannot be determined by name, the column reads “not identified.” If the name ends - or the name ends - in letters, then the female gender (“mot”) is assigned. If the name ends - or the last name ends - the letters include the male gender (“head”). Data has been compiled since 2019, but electronic filling of schedules into the system has been launched since 2022. By 2022, the schedules had been manually led from scanned volunteering schedules. The “savan_men_nr” column shall indicate the serial number of the month and the “savan_val_sum” shall indicate the number of hours volunteered during that month. These columns are filled in until the transition to the electronic graph filling system, but can continue to be filled in. When volunteering hours begin to be filled in, the following columns shall be filled in in the electronic graph filling system: “savan_start _date”, “savan_end _date”, “savan_val_duration”. The “report_id” column is the identifier for elevating the schedule to the system. The information in the collection is updated annually. The data provider is the Agency for Youth Affairs. Contact the atverimas@stat.gov.lt for technical questions or possible errors.