Unemployment: Young People
(asked on 9th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number and proportion of people under the age of 25 who are both not in employment and not in receipt of benefit.
The DWP publishes the Family Resources Survey (FRS) annually. The FRS is a continuous household survey, which collects information on a representative sample of private households in the United Kingdom. Detailed information is recorded on respondents’ income from all sources; housing tenure; caring needs and responsibilities; disability; expenditure on housing; education; pension participation; childcare; family circumstances; child maintenance.
The estimates in the table below have been produced using data from the 2016/17 survey.
Table: Estimated number and proportion of 16-24 year old adults who are neither in employment nor in receipt of benefit. United Kingdom, 2016/17
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16-24 year olds not receiving benefit and not in work | 3,200,000 | 45 | 1,936 |
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Children (16-19 years) | 1,600,000 | 23 | 1,210 |
Students(18-24 years) | 900,000 | 13 | 411 |
Unemployed (ILO definition) | 300,000 | 4 | 136 |
Other ILO inactive (including sick/disabled) | 400,000 | 5 | 179 |
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16-24 year olds in work or receiving benefit | 3,900,000 | 55 | 1,851 |
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Total number of 16-24 year olds | 7,200,000 | 100 | 3,787 |
Source: Family Resources Survey 2016-17
In addition, the ONS Labour Market Statistics, measured through the Labour Force Survey, also includes estimates of unemployed and inactive people aged 16-24 years. Data from January to March 2018 indicates that, for people aged 16 to 24 years, there were 356,000 unemployed and not in full-time education and 654,000 inactive.
Notes:
- The figures in the table are estimates derived from the Family Resources Survey.
- The Family Resources Survey is a continuous nationally representative sample of UK households.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201617
- The Family Resources Survey is a survey of private households. Therefore people living in communal establishments such as student halls of residence are not included in these figures.
- Included in this analysis are DWP and HMRC benefits, tax credits, and statutory payments (e.g., statutory maternity pay), plus council tax benefit.
- Relative to administrative records, the FRS is known to under-report benefit receipt.
- An individual aged 16-19 is defined as a child if not married nor in a Civil Partnership nor living with a partner; and living with parents; and in full-time non-advanced education or in unwaged government training.
- ILO definition: International Labour Organisation definition of economic status.
- Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100,000.
- The differences in estimates between figures derived through the Labour Force Survey and Family Resources Survey are due to differences in methodology and sample size.