Not in Education, Employment or
Training (NEET) or young unemployed – what’s the difference?
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For
April to June 2013, there were 1.09
million young people (aged from 16 to 24) in the UK who were Not in
Education, Employment or Training (NEET), down 1,000 from January to March 2013
and down104, 000 from a year earlier. For April to June 2013, 15.1% of all
people aged from 16 to 24 were NEET, unchanged on January to March 2013 but
down 1.3 percentage points on a year earlier[1].
·
NEET versus
Unemployed. The
term ‘NEET’ emerged in the UK in the late 1980s, following changes to
unemployment benefit entitlement regulations, which essentially removed young
people under the age of 18 years from the unemployment statistics. It is also
now widely applied across EU states and OECD countries and covers a broader age
spectrum, typically 15 – 24-year olds. In contrast, the youth unemployment rate
is a narrower definition, being a percentage of all young people (those aged 15
to 24) who are unemployed compared to the total labour force in that age group[2].
It does not take into account those who are studying or who are training, who
may or may not be seeking employment or those who are not registered in the
unemployment statistics.
·
Reductions to staffing and budgets, within individual LAs, principally
concerning the funding of the Connexions Service, has adversely affected LAs’
ability to undertake effective mapping and tracking of 16 and 17 year olds. In
some cases, this had resulted in escalating levels of destinations being
recorded as ‘unknown’. Unknown
national (England) average rate is 10
per cent. However, there are huge differences between localities.
|
Area
|
NEET rate (16-18-year olds)
|
‘Unknown’ rate
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
6.6%,
|
52.2%
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
3.8%
|
30.1%
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
3.7%
|
24.7%
|
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Unemployment measures people without a job who have
been actively seeking work within the last four weeks and are available to
start work in the next two weeks. For April to June 2013, there were 586,000
unemployed young people (aged from 16 to 24) who were Not in Education,
Employment or Training (NEET), up 6,000 from January to March 2013 but down
58,000 from a year earlier.
·
Economic inactivity measures people not in employment who
have not been seeking work within the last four weeks and/or are unable to
start work within the next two weeks. For April to June 2013:
·
there
were 151,000 economically inactive men
aged from 16 to 24 who were NEET, and
·
there
were 355,000 economically inactive women
aged from 16 to 24 who were NEET.
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