<codeBook xmlns="ddi:codebook:2_5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="ddi:codebook:2_5 https://ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.5/XMLSchema/codebook.xsd" version="2.5"><docDscr><citation><titlStmt><titl>Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) Dataset</titl><IDNo agency="DOI">doi:10.7910/DVN/NKE1IH</IDNo></titlStmt><distStmt><distrbtr source="archive">Harvard Dataverse</distrbtr><distDate>2026-02-04</distDate></distStmt><verStmt source="archive"><version date="2026-02-05" type="RELEASED">1</version></verStmt><biblCit>McDonnell, Duncan; Ammassari, Sofia; VALBRUZZI, MARCO; Bolin, Niklas; Werner, Annika; Heinisch, Reinhard; Jungar, Ann-Cathrine; Wegscheider, Carsten, 2026, "Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKE1IH, Harvard Dataverse, V1</biblCit></citation></docDscr><stdyDscr><citation><titlStmt><titl>Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) Dataset</titl><IDNo agency="DOI">doi:10.7910/DVN/NKE1IH</IDNo></titlStmt><rspStmt><AuthEnty affiliation="Griffith University">McDonnell, Duncan</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="Griffith University">Ammassari, Sofia</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II">VALBRUZZI, MARCO</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="Mid Sweden University">Bolin, Niklas</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="University of Southampton">Werner, Annika</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="University of Salzburg">Heinisch, Reinhard</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="Södertörn University">Jungar, Ann-Cathrine</AuthEnty><AuthEnty affiliation="University of Münster">Wegscheider, Carsten</AuthEnty></rspStmt><prodStmt/><distStmt><distrbtr source="archive">Harvard Dataverse</distrbtr><contact affiliation="Griffith University" email="s.ammassari@griffith.edu.au">Ammassari, Sofia</contact><depositr>Ammassari, Sofia</depositr><depDate>2026-02-03</depDate></distStmt><holdings URI="https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKE1IH"/></citation><stdyInfo><subject><keyword xml:lang="en">Social Sciences</keyword></subject><abstract>This dataset contains the full Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) - the largest comparative survey of political party youth wing members to date. It includes responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in six countries (Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden). The dataset covers members' biographies, reasons for joining the youth wing and reasons for staying in it.</abstract><sumDscr/></stdyInfo><method><dataColl><sources/></dataColl><anlyInfo/></method><dataAccs><setAvail/><useStmt/><notes type="DVN:TOU" level="dv">&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0&lt;/a></notes></dataAccs><othrStdyMat><relPubl><citation><titlStmt><titl>McDonnell, D., Ammassari, S., Valbruzzi, M., Bolin, N., Werner, A., Heinisch, R., Jungar, A.-C., &amp; Wegscheider, C. (2024). Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project. Party Politics, 31(6), 1049-1063.</titl><IDNo agency="doi">https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688241310349</IDNo></titlStmt><biblCit>McDonnell, D., Ammassari, S., Valbruzzi, M., Bolin, N., Werner, A., Heinisch, R., Jungar, A.-C., &amp; Wegscheider, C. (2024). Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project. 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