PRIB is financed by the budget subsidy under intra-institutional contracts for a period of 3 years (2022-2024). The team are Sr. Assist. Prof Dr. L. Stoytchev (head of project), Prof. Dr. Il. Tomova and En. Pchelarova (doctoral student).
The project activities include the extraction of useful information, data processing (recoding, generation and collection and additional data input), statistical and theoretical modelling, calculation of indicators and statistical and sociological analysis of data from the Novel Approaches to Generating Data on hard-to-reach populations at risk of violation of their rights project, funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.
PRIB targets to identify the determinants of key issues related to Roma inclusion in society. In parallel, it is intended to further develop the research skills of doctoral students and early career researchers from the Department of Demography, IPHS-BAS.
Current important interim deliverables include the analysis of missing observations in the dataset, the selection of methods to overcome the missing data issues, and the addition of data from external sources to the dataset.
Potential beneficiaries of the PRIB project deliverables are the stakeholders engaged in the prevention of dropping out of school and/or reintegration into the education system and/or the labour market of young people not in employment, education or training (a.k.a. NEETs) and the early school leavers.