gender

labour_market_status

percent

Calendar year 2022

For 2013 to 2022, the percentage of the 16-17, 18 and 16-18 population in England by whether they are in: education and apprenticeships; other training; not in education or training but are employed; not in education, employment or training.

Table 1a - Headlines: Participation of 16-18 year olds in education, training and employment and NEET

The proportion of each type of education and training being undertaken by those 16-17, 18 and 16-18 for 2019-2022 in England.

Table 1b - Education and training type

The proportion in each institution type for those in full-time education ages 16-17, 18 and 16-18, 2019-2022 in England.

Table 2 - Institution type of those in full-time education

The proportion of those 16-17, 18 and 16-18 in Apprenticeships by level for 2019-2022 in England.

Table 4 - Participation of 16-18 year olds in Apprenticeships by level

The labour market status of those NEET ages 16-17, 18 and 16-18 for 2019-2022 in England.

Table 5 - NEET by labour market status (inactive, unemployed)

The proportion of the population within each labour market status, with breakdowns to show if they are in education and training or NET, by ages 16-17, 18 and 16-18 for 2019-2022 in England.

Table 6 - Participation of 16 to 18 year olds by labour market status (employed, inactive, unemployed)

The proportion of those participating in full-time education by highest qualification aim by ages 16-17, 18 and 16-18 for 2019-2022 in England.

Table 3 - Participation of 16 to 18 year olds in full-time education by highest qualification aim

number

Number and proportion of population participating in education, training and employment by age, gender and labour market status.

Participation Headlines

Number and proportion of population participating in education or training by age, gender, institution type and highest qualification aim.

Participation Institutions and Qualifications

Summary NEET estimates from related Department for Education publications: &nbsp;<a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief">NEET age 16 to 24</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures">NEET and participation: local authority figures</a>. These have been used for comparisons between the different NEET measures.

Participation NEET other sources

Number in population, proportions participating in education and apprenticeships and proportions NEET as previously published (population based on 2011 census) and rebased population (based on Dynamic Population Model (DPM)) &nbsp;by age and gender for 2011-2021.&nbsp;

Revisions to previously published estimates

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Children in need and child protection

Children looked after

Children's social work workforce

Outcomes for children in social care

Secure children's homes

Serious incident notifications

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Attendance

CO2 monitors

Confirmed cases reported by Higher Education providers

Devices

Testing

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Destinations of key stage 4 and 16-18 pupils

NEET and participation

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Childcare and early years

Early years foundation stage profile

Early years surveys

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Local authority and school finance

Student loan forecasts

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Further education and skills

Further education outcomes

Further education workforce

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Education exports

Foundation years

Higher education graduate employment and earnings

Higher level learners in England

Participation measures in higher education

Widening participation in higher education

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

Academy transfers

Admission appeals

Elective home education and children missing education

Exclusions

Parental responsibility measures

Pupil absence

Pupil projections

School and pupil numbers

School applications

School capacity

Special educational needs (SEN)

Young offenders

School and college outcomes and performance

16 to 19 attainment

GCSEs (key stage 4)

Key stage 1

Key stage 2

Multi-academy trust performance measures

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Initial teacher training (ITT)

School workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

		2019	2020	2021	2022
16-18	Total	6.6%	7.1%	7.0%	8.4%
	Economically inactive	3.5%	4.1%	4.6%	4.1%
	ILO unemployed	3.1%	3.0%	2.5%	4.3%
16-17	Total	4.1%	4.4%	5.7%	4.6%
	Economically inactive	1.9%	2.6%	4.3%	3.1%
	ILO unemployed	2.2%	1.8%	1.4%	1.4%
18	Total	11.4%	12.6%	9.7%	15.9%
	Economically inactive	6.5%	7.0%	5.1%	6.1%
	ILO unemployed	4.9%	5.6%	4.6%	9.8%

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