YOUNG PEOPLE NOT IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING (NEET), UK: NOVEMBER 2018
The latest release from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has produced estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.
The report indicates that there is a reduction in NEETS from the same period in 2017 :
There were 760,000 young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET); this number decreased by 23,000 from April to June 2018 and was down 29,000 when compared with July to September 2017.
The percentage of all young people in the UK who were NEET was 10.9%; the proportion was down 0.3 percentage points from April to June 2018 and down 0.3 percentage points from July to September 2017.
Of all young people in the UK who were NEET, 37.0% were looking for work and available for work and therefore classified as unemployed; the remainder were either not looking for work and/or not available for work and therefore classified as economically inactive.
FE News highlight in their commentary :
YouGov has today (22 Nov) released the Education and Training Statistics for the UK 2018, which specifically state that the NEET rate (Not in Education, Employment or Training) for 18-24 year olds has fallen each year between 2013 and 2017, from 16.8% in 2013 to 12.9% in 2017, including a 0.5 percentage point fall between 2016 and 2017.