Dear, Carla

Thank you for waiting so patiently for our response.

We went trough “metadata” descriptions with Heidi and we agree with all of them.

A distinctive feature of the YGSS service is that young people enter the service through and work closely with a dedicated specialist and the support period may last up to 6+6 months. This means that even when a young person receives additional support through other measures or services during this period (e.g. returning to education, employment support or other support services), they remain under the supervision and guidance of their YGSS specialist. Therefore, the six-month period should not be interpreted as a time during which the young person receives no other support. YGSS continues to provide counselling and case management functions throughout the process. For example, a young person enters the YGSS service while unemployed. Within four weeks of entering YGSS, they are referred to and begin receiving services from the Unemployment Insurance Fund. From the YGSS perspective, this does not mean that the young person has exited the service. Instead, they remain simultaneously engaged with both the Unemployment Insurance Fund and YGSS, with the YGSS specialist continuing to provide counselling, guidance, and case management support. In YGSS monitoring, the young person would only be considered to have exited the service once they have achieved the agreed outcome, such as obtaining employment.

When assessing outcomes and effectiveness, it is important to distinguish between the impact of the service and the role of the specialist, as well as to analyse in which cases YGSS support alone was sufficient and in which cases additional services or measures needed to be involved.
Data collection for analysing the effectiveness and outcomes of YGSS is currently underway. In the future, we aim to develop a more automated data collection system, enabling more comprehensive and reliable monitoring, analysis, and evaluation of the service's impact.

We also intend to ensure that future data collection captures information on repeat entries into the service, allowing for a better understanding of young people's longer-term pathways and support needs.

Dear Gethe, Heidi,

Many thanks for the efforts in providing data and for your responses.

In an attempt to align as much as possible the data provided for YGSS, for the statistics to be aggregated with the PES data, we have transferred the provided figures in the YG standard template and produced estimates for stock figures.

Please see attached for your reference. The tab “metadata” has description of any deviations from the common methodology and any considerations. I would be grateful if you could confirm you are in agreement of the text added, so we can proceed with preparing the data for subsequent analysis.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Carla

We do have some information on participants' outcomes after leaving the service. For 2025, 1,046 participants exited the service, of whom 192 are recorded as having moved into education and 12 into employment. However, the dataset does not currently provide a comprehensive breakdown of the situation of all participants at the point of exit. Therefore, I am not certain that the data can be directly used for ESF+ exit-status reporting without further validation of the definitions and coverage.

At this stage, it is difficult to provide a reliable assessment about entrants information. We have currently ongoing data collection received only  from 6 out of 21 regions, so the information available is not yet sufficiently complete to draw conclusions about the overall share of YGSS participants who may also be registered with the PES. We expect to be able to provide a more robust assessment once data collection has been completed.

Gethe Laus
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Many thanks Gethe,

This is very helpful.

A follow-up question, if I may – do you collect any information on situation of participants when they exit that can be utilised for the breakdowns? For ESF+ we are aware the indicators usually monitor employment and education/training, which would be useful to populate. @[email protected] we are mindful that otherwise the data will affect the YG indicators.

Regarding entrants data, we will make a note that information will be available for the next round of data collection. It would be useful to interpret the data though, if you already have an indication (maybe from project providers) on whether the share of participants in the YGSS that are possibly also in the PES data is likely to be small or substantial.

Thanks again.

Kind regards,

Carla

Carla Bros Sabria - YG support team

Alphametrics Ltd

Station Yard, Station Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 5BH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1480 702101

Fax: +44 (0)1480 731393

Hello Carla,

1. 1. Exits: I can confirm that this includes all participants who have left the programme.
2. 2. Entrants: Unfortunately, the dataset I currently have does not include information on whether participants were registered as unemployed with the PES. However, we are currently collecting this information from our specialists, and it should be included in the new dataset. Bringing this information together and validating the data will take some time.

Gethe Laus
teenuseomanik(NEET noorte teenus)

KOV sotsiaalteenuste toe ja valmisoleku talitus

Sotsiaal- ja erihoolekande osakond
Sotsiaalkindlustusamet
___________________________

53860523

www.sotsiaalkindlustusamet.ee

See kiri ja manused võivad olla konfidentsiaalsed. Kui olete saanud kirja eksikombel, ei tohi te selle alusel midagi ette võtta ega seda levitada. Palun teavitage kirja saatjat eksitusest ning kustutage kiri.

Dear Heidi,

Many thanks for forwarding the detailed data.

Dear Gethe, we have a few questions on the dataset we would welcome clarification so we can determine how to incorporate them into the YG monitoring data:

1. 1. Exits: Can you confirm whether this includes all participants leaving the programme (irrespective of destination, e.g. employment, education, and including drop-outs), or does it only cover those which have a “positive” result?
2. 2. Entrants: Do you have information on the situation of participants upon entry, regarding their registration as unemployed with the PES? This would be very useful to determine the degree of overlap between the two datasets.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Carla

YG support team

Alphametrics Ltd

Station Yard, Station Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 5BH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1480 702101

Fax: +44 (0)1480 731393

Dear Carla,

Dear Heidi,

The figure I was enquiring about was December 2025, but we will await for mid-July as monthly figures (broken down by duration of registration if possible) would be more relevant, many thanks.

We will make the not on additional contact details many thanks.

Kind regards,

YG support team

Alphametrics Ltd

Station Yard, Station Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 5BH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1480 702101

Fax: +44 (0)1480 731393

Dear Carla,

Dear Heidi,

We have had an internal discussion regarding how to include the data you provided for the YGSS.  We have a few questions before we do that:

1. 1. You provide the figure of those registered at the beginning of the year: “As of early 2025, the following were participating in the program (as of January 1, 2025): 1569”

• * in order to align it more with the YG stocks measurement (which uses an average of the stock each month), are you able to provide the number of participants each month? (or if not, provide at least the end-of year figure? i.e. participating in the programme as of December 2025? ).
• * Adding only the overall stocks will affect the YG indicator figures; are you able to have a breakdown of the number of people participating in the programme (as above) by duration, in line with the YG indicators?

1. 2. Data on registered in 2025: “Registered, i.e., enrolled, in 2025: 691 (+ 1571)” – Can you clarify what the 1,571 figure refers to? Is this the number of registered in previous years?

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,

YG support team

Alphametrics Ltd

Station Yard, Station Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 5BH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1480 702101

Fax: +44 (0)1480 731393

Dear Heidi,

I have run the validation checks for the quantitative data submitted (we still need to incorporate the new data you sent over).

Whilst there were no errors found in the data per se, we would be really grateful if you could provide some input into some issue regarding plausibility, coverage and the list of offers.

Please see the validation report attached for all the details and space to reply.

Kind regards,

Carla

Carla Bros Sabria - YG support team

Alphametrics Ltd

Station Yard, Station Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 5BH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1480 702101

Fax: +44 (0)1480 731393

Many thanks, we will adapt the quantitative data and come back to you with the validation report

Have a nice day,

Eleni

Thank you Heidi,

Just one clarification: will we receive amended quantitative data to include participants in the Youth Guarantee Support System?

Or we just utilise what you already provided? (e.g. there will be no stocks and not exits by destination)

Thank you,

Eleni

From: Heidi Paabort - MKM <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2026 09:44
To: YG Monitoring <[email protected]>
Subject: Vs: YG monitoring_EE

Dear Eleni,

I apologize for the late reply. We were on summer vacation. 

All the best

Saatja: YG Monitoring <[email protected]>
Saadetud: esmaspäev, 22. juuni 2026 15:35
Adressaat: Heidi Paabort - MKM <[email protected]>
Teema: Re: YG monitoring_EE

Dear Heidi,

Thank you for providing the YG data for 2024.

Re the YG Support System data, we don't see any reason to exclude them. However, please clarify in the metadata: 

                     whether there is any risk of double-counting with PES data

                     any deviations from the methodological manual

                     whether there is information on the destination of exits. (i.e. are  all participants reported as exits to unknown destination?

                     Or some destinations are monitored?)

We thus, wait for the revised monitoring data.

Best Regards,

Eleni

From: Heidi Paabort - MKM <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2026 08:36
To: YG Monitoring <[email protected]>
Subject: YG monitoring_EE

Dear Eleni,

All the best