Calendar year 2022

Participation in education, training and employment age 16 to 18

Participation and not in education, employment or training (NEET) figures ages 16 to 18 in England. Includes institution type and qualification aim breakdowns.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 19 October 2023

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• Table 1b - Education and training type

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

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

  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.

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• Table 6 - Participation of 16 to 18 year olds by labour market status (employed, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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.

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• Participation Headlines

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 34,800
  • Indicators:
    • Number
    • Percent
  • Filters:
    • Academic age
    • Activity
    • Gender
  • Time period: 1994 to 2022

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• Participation Institutions and Qualifications

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 320,790
  • Indicators:
    • Number
    • Percent
  • Filters:
    • Academic age
    • Full or part-time
    • Gender
  • Time period: 1994 to 2022

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• Participation NEET other sources

  National

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

  • Number of rows: 14
  • Indicators:
    • DfE LFS NEET
    • DfE LFS NEET lower bound (95% confidence interval)
    • DfE LFS NEET upper bound (95% confidence interval)
  • Filters:
    • Age group
  • Time period: 2016 to 2022

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• Revisions to previously published estimates

  National

  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))  by age and gender for 2011-2021.

  • Number of rows: 165
  • Indicators:
    • Number NEET as previously published
    • Number NEET based on revised population estimates
    • Number participating in Education and Apprenticeships as previously published
  • Filters:
    • Academic age
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2011 to 2021

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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 ‘Participation in education, training and employment’ National Statistics release’s underlying data. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The underlying data files include national participation estimates for 16-18 year olds in England and are broken down by (academic) age, gender, institution type, whether full-time (FT) or part-time (PT), and by highest study aim.

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

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.

Coverage

The data in this publication covers young people who reside in England, and is based on their academic age, that is their age at the start of the academic year, 31st August. The publication includes data on individual ages between 16 and 18 as well as for combined age groups, 16-17 and 16-18. The data is at national level only and cannot be disaggregated to sub-national levels, or by characteristics other than gender.

Participation estimates are broken down by (academic) age, gender, institution type, whether full-time (FT) or part-time (PT), and by highest study aim. This publication provides the official annual estimates of participation and NEET (not in education, employment or training) in England.

The publication also provides a robust estimate of the number and proportion of 16-18 year olds not in education and training (NET) and looks at the labour market status for both those young people identified as NET and those participating in education or training. Those identified as NET and not in employment are classified as NEET.

Local authority (LA) estimates of participation in education and work-based learning by 16- to 17-year-olds are no longer published as part of this release. The Department for Education publishes transparency data for local participation based on local authority management information, here: Participation in education and training by local authority. (opens in new tab)

File formats and conventions

The files are in comma separated values format (.csv) with UTF-8 encoding.

The underlying data files contain unrounded figures as estimated from the administrative and 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.

Symbols used in the underlying data are as follows:

Symbol	Meaning
z	When an observation is not applicable

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