Calendar year 2023

NEET age 16 to 24

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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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 28 March 2024
• Last updated: 18 September 2024

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• Table 1: NEET by age

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

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• Table 2: NET by age

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

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• Table 3: Overall activity and reasons NEET

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

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

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

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• Table 5: Male and female NEET

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

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• Table 6: Male and female reason 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

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• Table 7: Age 18-21 NEET estimates

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

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• NEET and NET Estimates from the LFS

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 1,425
  • Indicators:
    • Annual change in NEET rate
    • Annual change in NET rate
    • Confidence interval (95%) for the annual change in NEET rate
  • Filters:
    • Age
    • Quarter
    • Sex
  • Time period: 2000 to 2023

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• NEET Primary Health Condition Estimates from the APS

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 276
  • Indicators:
    • Confidence interval (95%) for the number of 16-24 year olds
    • Confidence interval (95%) for the percentage of 16-24 year olds
    • Lower bound of confidence interval (95%) for the number of 16-24 year olds
  • Filters:
    • Activity status
    • Health condition
  • Time period: 2012 to 2023

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

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 24
  • Indicators:
    • Population (ONS estimate)
    • Sample size
    • Number NEET
  • Time period: 2000 to 2023

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• Other sources comparisons

  National

  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.

  • Number of rows: 121
  • Indicators:
    • DfE LFS NEET
    • DfE LFS NEET lower bound (95% confidence interval)
    • DfE LFS NEET upper bound (95% confidence interval)
  • Filters:
    • Age group
    • Quarter of the year
  • Time period: 2000 to 2023

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘NEET age 16-24’ release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License. (opens in new tab)

The methodology 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.

Coverage

The data used in this publication covers young people who reside in England, and is based on the academic age as at 31st August. The publication’s underlying data contains NEET and NET estimates for the age groups, 16/17, 16-18, 16-24, 18-24 and 19-24. It also includes sex and labour market status breakdowns for the overall 16-24 age group.

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.

File formats and conventions

The underlying data files contain unrounded figures as estimated from the survey data as outlined in the accompanying methodology document.

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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