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Data Provider: Welsh Government Estimated 16-24 year olds not in education, training or employment by economic activity and age groups
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[Collapse]EmploymentInternational Labour Organisation Unemployed (ILO). The ILO measure of unemployment covers people without a job who are available to start work within two weeks and had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview, or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained. Economically inactive. The economically inactive consist of those people who are neither in employment, nor classified as unemployed on the ILO definition. Such people are classified according to whether or not they would like a regular paid job and, if so whether or not they are seeking work and /or available.[Filter]
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[Collapse]NumberRounded to the nearest one hundred.[Collapse]NEETNot in education or training, nor in employment13,10011,70011,50014,00015,00014,80013,50014,00012,00011,70011,50011,00010,60010,00010,40012,00012,40014,80013,20011,00036,90040,40042,40042,20042,80054,10058,20057,40058,80052,70049,90045,10043,10034,50035,70035,30033,90037,40033,00035,100
NEETNot in education or training, nor in employmentILO unemployed7,5007,1006,3008,4009,2007,2007,2008,5006,2006,3005,5005,0003,5003,8004,8004,4004,3004,6003,3005,60010,70015,20015,00015,60017,40022,60027,20027,00030,00023,90021,30019,00013,20014,00012,00010,8009,00010,4009,1008,500
Economically inactive5,5004,6005,3005,5005,8007,6006,3005,6005,8005,4006,1006,0007,1006,2005,6007,6008,10010,2009,9005,40026,20025,30027,40026,60025,40031,50031,00030,40028,70028,80028,60026,10030,00020,50023,70024,40024,90027,00023,90026,600
[Collapse]Not NEETNot NEET104,000106,400107,800106,400105,600104,600103,600101,000101,00099,90098,90096,90094,30092,30090,40089,20090,60090,20093,80098,500191,500191,800195,200200,400203,200195,500195,800200,700197,200199,400197,000196,900194,700199,000193,500191,100189,400184,000192,200195,300
[Collapse]TotalThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates mid-year estimates of resident population by single year of age as at 30 June. For this release, end of year populations have been derived from the mid-year estimates and population projections provided by the ONS. These estimates have been adjusted to age as at 31 August. For example age as at 31 August 2015 is used in the provisional figures for year end 2015.TotalThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates mid-year estimates of resident population by single year of age as at 30 June. For this release, end of year populations have been derived from the mid-year estimates and population projections provided by the ONS. These estimates have been adjusted to age as at 31 August. For example age as at 31 August 2015 is used in the provisional figures for year end 2015.117,100118,200119,300120,400120,600119,400117,100115,100113,000111,600110,400108,000104,900102,200100,800101,200103,000105,000107,000109,500228,400232,200237,600242,700246,000249,500254,000258,100256,000252,100247,000242,000237,800233,500229,200226,300223,300221,400225,200230,400
[Collapse]Per cent[Collapse]NEETNot in education or training, nor in employment11.29.99.711.612.412.411.612.210.710.510.410.210.19.810.411.912.014.112.310.116.217.417.917.417.421.722.922.323.020.920.218.618.114.815.615.615.216.914.615.2
NEETNot in education or training, nor in employmentILO unemployed6.46.05.37.07.66.06.17.35.55.64.94.63.33.74.84.44.14.43.15.24.76.56.36.47.19.010.710.511.79.58.67.95.56.05.24.84.04.74.13.7
Economically inactive4.73.94.44.64.86.45.44.95.24.95.55.66.86.05.67.57.99.79.24.911.510.911.511.010.312.612.211.811.211.411.610.812.68.810.310.811.212.210.611.6
[Collapse]Not NEETNot NEET88.890.190.388.487.687.688.487.889.389.589.689.889.990.289.688.188.085.987.789.983.882.682.182.682.678.377.177.777.079.179.881.481.985.284.484.484.883.185.484.8
[Collapse]TotalThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates mid-year estimates of resident population by single year of age as at 30 June. For this release, end of year populations have been derived from the mid-year estimates and population projections provided by the ONS. These estimates have been adjusted to age as at 31 August. For example age as at 31 August 2015 is used in the provisional figures for year end 2015.TotalThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates mid-year estimates of resident population by single year of age as at 30 June. For this release, end of year populations have been derived from the mid-year estimates and population projections provided by the ONS. These estimates have been adjusted to age as at 31 August. For example age as at 31 August 2015 is used in the provisional figures for year end 2015.100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0

Metadata

Title

Estimated 16-24 year olds not in education, training or employment in Wales, by gender, economic activity, and selected age groups

Last update

March 2025 March 2025

Next update

November 2025 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC), Welsh Government

Source 2

Lifelong Learning Wales Record, Welsh Government

Contact email

LabourMarket.Stats@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

These data provide information on participation of 16-24 year olds not in education,training and employment by selected age groups, and economic activity.

Data collection and calculation

Source: ONS (Mid Year Population Estimates & Annual Population Survey), HESA, Welsh Government Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR), Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC)

The Annual Population Survey is used to estimate the following proportions:
• Labour market status of those in full-time education;
• Labour market status of those in part-time education;
• Full-time and part-time employment of those in Work Based Learning, who are employed;
• Employer sponsored 'off-the-job' training for those in employment.

The LLWR is used to estimate the following proportion:
• Labour market status of those engaged in Work Based Learning.
These proportions are then applied to the numbers known to be in education, work-based learning and the total population to derive estimates of participation by education and employment. For Work Based Learners, the labour market status at the start of the learning programme collected via the LLWR is used with the addition of some APS data to estimate the proportions in full-time and part-time employment.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data is published annually. 2023 data is provisional.

Users, uses and context

Provides policy makers and those working with young people with data to monitor trends in participation and assess the impact of education and labour market interventions on young people.

Rounding applied

Data are rounded to the nearest one hundred. Due to rounding the sums of rows or columns may not add to the total figure given.

Revisions information

2023 figures are provisional and will be finalised in next year's publication, due for release in November 2025.

Previously published estimates from 2012 to 2021 have been revised in this release in order to incorporate the rebased population estimates using Census 2021 data, published in November 2023 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Statistical quality

The methodology used to produce the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data has been updated from the 2022/23 academic year, impacting NEET estimates from 2022 onwards. The impacts of this methodology change on the estimates are small, with the difference in the higher education student population between the old and new methodology being less than 1 percentage point. Given this, no break in the time series is necessary, and comparisons before and after 2022 can still be made. Further information is available in the methodology note (https://www.gov.wales/participation-young-people-education-and-labour-market-methodology-note).

There were changes made in the methodology used to derive the participation estimates introduced for the year end 2004 edition. Care should be taken when comparing these estimates with estimates from year end 2004 onwards.

The economic status proportions are estimated from the Annual Population Survey. Therefore, these estimates will be subject to variation due to sampling error and also non-sampling error and should be treated with caution.

Keywords

Participation, NEET