Roma population and employment: A comparative study

The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG), a Spanish non-profit social organisation which works for the promotion of the Roma community. This report is mainly based on a survey of the Roma population by means of a questionnaire applied to a sample of 1,500 Roma people, both men and women, age 16 and over.

In light of the Roma population’s special situation in terms of inequality and disadvantage, special compensatory steps are called for but which must always be oriented towards mainstreaming. The FSG’s main objective, therefore, is to make equal opportunity a reality for the Roma population as regards their access to training and employment in support of their full inclusion in society. According to FSG, even if the data refer to the Spanish Roma population, there are key aspects which can be clearly extrapolated to other countries where the situation of the Roma is similar.