Simon Cox of BBC News said the word is "the latest buzzword for teenage drop-outs". There is some stigma attached to the term NEET. NEET figures tend to peak in the third quarter, when school and university courses are ending. The Guardian reported in 2011 that, since 2003, there has been a 15.6 percent decrease in people aged 16–18 in employment, but a 6.8 percent increase in those in education and training. Between 19, the proportion of NEETs aged 16–18 in England remained fairly stable at around 8–11 percent. The second-quarter figures for 2011 showed that 979,000 people in England between 16 and 24 were NEETs, accounting for 16.2 percent in that age group. Ī 2007 report commissioned by the Prince's Trust said almost a fifth of people aged 16–24 in England, Scotland, and Wales were NEETs the proportion was lowest in Northern Ireland (13.8 percent). ![]() The first relies on a range of sources, the second on the Labour Force Survey. The methodology used in calculating the number of NEETs aged 16–18 is different from that used for those aged 16–24. NEET figures for England are published by the Department for Education (DfE). Scott Yates and Malcolm Payne say that initially there was a "holistic focus" on the NEET group by policy-makers which looked at the problems young people went through, but this changed as the NEET status became framed in negative terms-"as reflective of a raft of risks, problems and negative orientations on the part of young people". Karen Robson writes that the classification has "virtually usurped discussions of "youth unemployment" in the UK literature". The classification is specifically redefined in other local government papers, such as "respondents who were out of work or looking for a job, looking after children or family members, on unpaid holiday or traveling, sick or disabled, doing voluntary work or engaged in another unspecified activity" the acronym, however, has no agreed definition with respect to measurement, particularly in relation to defining economic inactivity. Andy Furlong writes that the use of the term NEET became popular partly because of the negative connotations of having "no status". Before this, the phrase "status zero", which had a similar meaning, was used. Knowledge of the word spread after it was used in a 1999 report by the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU). See also: Education in the United Kingdom and Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom NLFET is similar to NEET but excludes unemployed youth (who are part of the labour force). NEET is to be distinguished from the newly coined NLFET rate ("Neither in the Labour Force nor in Education or Training") used in the 2013 report on Global Employment Trends for Youth by the International Labour Organization. In Japan, the classification comprises people aged between 15 and 34 who are not employed, not engaged in housework, not enrolled in school or work-related training, and not seeking work.Ī 2008 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said the unemployment and NEET rates for people aged 16–24 in the majority of OECD countries fell in the past decade, attributed to increased participation in education. In the United Kingdom, the classification comprises people aged between 16 and 24 (some 16 and 17 year-olds are still of compulsory school age) the subgroup of NEETs aged 16–18 is frequently of particular focus. It is usually age-bounded to exclude people in old-age retirement. ![]() The NEET category includes the unemployed (individuals without a job and seeking one), as well as individuals outside the labour force (without a job and not seeking one). The classification originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, and its use has spread, in varying degrees, to other countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. NEET, an acronym for " Not in Education, Employment, or Training", refers to a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training. Percentage of NEETs among 15- to 24-year-olds ( ILO data, 2020)
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