total_NEET_NET

health_condition

percent_of_population

percent_of_NEET

Calendar year 2024

NEET rate by age in England, October to December, 2000 to 2023

Table 1: NEET by age

Not in education or training (NET) rates by age in England, October to December, 2000 to 2023

Table 2: NET by age

Overall activity: education and training, employment and NEET by labour market status for ages 16-24

Table 3: Overall activity and reasons NEET

Table 4: Mental health and other health conditions of the population and of those NEET

NEET rate by sex (overall age 16-24) in England, October to December, 2000 to 2023

Table 5: Male and female NEET

Age 16-24 male and female NEET rate in England and reason NEET as a percentage of the NEET population, October to December 2010 to 2023

Table 6: Male and female reason NEET

Time series showing age 18-21 NEET estimates and associated 95% confidence intervals, quarter 4 2000-2023, England

Table 7: Age 18-21 NEET estimates

population

conf_interval_number

conf_interval_percent_of_population

lower_bound_population

lower_bound_percent_of_population

upper_bound_population

upper_bound_percent_of_population

sample_size

Not in employment, education and training (NEET) and not in education and training (NET) estimates for England ages 16-24.

NEET and NET Estimates from the LFS

Numbers and proportions of those 16-24 by health condition and NEET status from the Annual Population Survey (APS).

NEET Primary Health Condition Estimates from the APS

Not in employment, education and training (NEET) and not in education and training (NET) estimates for England ages 18-21, quarter 4.

Age 18-21 NEET and NET estimates, quarter 4 2000-2023

Summary NEET estimates from the Department for Education's “NEET age 16 to 24” and "Participation in education and training and employment" annual release, the “National Client Caseload Information System” and the Office for National Statistic's quarterly “Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET)” release used to provide comparison between the different NEET measures.&nbsp;

Other sources comparisons

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

Children's social care

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

COVID-19

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

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

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

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

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

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

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

	B - Headlines	C - Type of health condition - mental or other		B - Headlines	C - Type of health condition - mental or other
	Percent (in selected category)			Percentage of those NEET (in selected category)
	Any health condition	Mental health condition	Non-mental health condition	Any health condition	Mental health condition	Non-mental health condition
2012	19.3%	2.5%	16.8%	29.6%	7.7%	21.8%
2013	18.5%	2.9%	15.6%	28.9%	8.5%	20.4%
2014	17.6%	3.4%	14.2%	30.1%	10.5%	19.5%
2015	18.6%	4.1%	14.5%	31.9%	11.2%	20.7%
2016	19.7%	5.2%	14.4%	36.6%	15.8%	20.8%
2017	20.2%	5.7%	14.5%	37.1%	17.2%	19.9%
2018	20.9%	6.6%	14.3%	39.8%	18.9%	20.9%
2019	22.2%	7.4%	14.8%	39.3%	18.3%	21.0%
2020	23.2%	8.0%	15.2%	45.1%	20.6%	24.5%
2021	24.5%	8.3%	16.2%	46.7%	21.3%	25.4%
2022	25.6%	8.6%	17.0%	47.2%	20.3%	26.9%
2023	26.7%	8.2%	18.6%	46.9%	19.5%	27.5%

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