Youth and Democratic Citizenship in East and South-East Asia

This report addresses East and South-East Asian youth’s sense of involvement and empowerment as democratic citizens, their assessments of institutions and quality of governance, and how they participate in politics and exercise their citizenship, compared with older age groups at both the national and regional levels. Based on survey data from the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) Wave 3, collected through 2010–2012, the report emerges from a partnership between UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre and the Asian Barometer. The data comprise more than 17,900 responses collected from 12 East and South-East Asian societies: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Taiwan (Province of China), Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.