Most cannot name the youth funds set aside for them

The full distribution for “Are you personally aware of the specific project funds and development welfare schemes kept exclusively for youth development in your local Panchayat budget?” (n = 399) is: Completely unaware of youth-centric public budgeting — 55.4% (221); Vaguely aware of its existence — 36.6% (146); Yes, thoroughly informed — 8% (32).

The cohort is moderately concentrated on this question. One option leads without dominating, so the second and third answers carry real policy weight. The smallest recorded answer, yes, thoroughly informed, still represents 32 people — a group large enough to matter in programme design even at 8%.

These are self-reported answers from a community-recruited cohort of 399 young Keralites surveyed between 21 May and 28 June 2026. They are not probability-sample estimates of Kerala's youth population, and confidence intervals from random sampling do not apply.

Because 74.4% of respondents sit in one age band and 72.7% identify as male, subgroup differences are indicative at best. Cross-tabulated claims require a larger, stratified sample.

Finally, the survey measures single-point self-report, so it can establish association and scale but not direction or cause. Where this brief notes a pattern across two questions, that pattern is descriptive.