Over half of Romanian children - 56 percent to be exact, get money from their parents every week, while half of them receive monthly amounts of up to RON 50 (EUR 11.5), according to the online ‘Pocket Money’ survey conducted by iVox for KRUK International. However, the study shows that in half of these cases, pocket money was hit by the economic crisis, with parents around the country cutting back heavily.

Over 27 percent of the Romanian kids spend pocket money on going out with other children, 8.8 percent on buying gadgets, IT devices, software or services, while another 30 percent spend on other goods and services. Just 33 percent save their pocket money.

The ‘Pocket money’ survey was conducted in March and surveyed a total of 1,358 respondents, most of them from Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Prahova and Constanta.

Kruk International is supporting the seventh educational module ‘My pocket money’, put together with the non-governmental organization ‘Scoala de Valori’, as part of the educational program GROW. This module targets ninth grade high-school students from 14 cities in Romania, namely Arad, Brasov, Bucuresti, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Craiova, Iasi, Oradea, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Sibiu, Suceava, Tirgu Mures and Timisoara, and will be implemented in 2012 in two stages.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Sxc.hu)