Annual estimates from the Labour Force Survey of young people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET) in England.
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NET rate by age, England, October to December 2000-2020
NEET rate by age, England, October to December 2000-2020
16-24 NEET rate by gender, England, October to December 2000-2020
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National, Regional
Not in employment, education and training and Not in education and training estimates for England and the English regions for ages 16-24.
National
Numbers and proportions of those 16-24 by health condition and NEET status from the Annual Population Survey.
National
Summary NEET estimates from the Department for Education's “NEET annual brief” 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.
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This document describes the data included in the ‘NEET annual brief: 2020’ National Statistics release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License. (opens in new tab)
The technical document published with the release should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
The data used in this publication covers young people who reside in England, and is based on the academic age as of 31st August. The publication’s underlying data contains individual age data between 16 and 24 years of age as well as summary age groups, 16/17, 16-18, 16-24, 18-24 and 19-24. It also includes labour market status, gender and regional breakdowns.
As a result of user feedback and internal review, from March 2018 DfE changed the periodicity of the England NEET Brief Statistics publication to an annual release to be published in February/March each year following the release of final quarter Labour Force Survey data, relating to the October to December quarter.
Quarterly NEET estimates for the UK (opens in new tab) are published by the Office for National Statistics. They differ to the figures in the DfE NEET brief as they are for the whole of the UK, are based on calendar age and are seasonally adjusted.
The underlying data files contain unrounded figures as estimated from the survey data as outlined in the accompanying technical documentation.
No suppression has been applied, as the data is not considered sensitive and no additional characteristic or geography variables are included to enable individuals to be accurately identified.
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