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Young People: Employment

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the number of young people under the age of 24 years who are in (a) training, (b) employment and (c) education in (i) Vale of York constituency, (ii) North Yorkshire and (iii) England. (294583)

Table 1 shows the number and percentage of 16-24-year-olds in employment, education and training for England and the local education authorities (LEAs) of North Yorkshire and the City of York in 2008. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand.

These estimates are from the Annual Population Survey (2008).

Table 1: People aged1 16 to 24 in education, employment or training (2008)

Number

Percentage (of total l6-24 population)

England

North Yorkshire

City of York

England

North Yorkshire

City of York

In employment

3,555,000

39,000

21,000

59

66

67

In education

2,452,000

27,000

14,000

41

45

45

In training (not education)

623,000

8,000

5,000

10

14

15

Not in employment or education or training

857,000

7,000

1,000

14

12

4

1 Age used is the respondents' academic age, which is their age at the preceding 31 August

There are overlaps between these groups as some people will be both working and in education or training.

Due to small sample sizes, estimates cannot be provided for areas smaller than LEAs. Please note that these estimates are subject to sampling variability and should be viewed in conjunction with their Confidence Intervals (CIs), which indicate how accurate an estimate is. For example, a CI of +/-0.6pp means that the sampling variability ranges from 0.6pp above the estimate and 0.6pp below the estimate. Confidence Intervals for table 1 have been provided in Table 2.

Table 2: Confidence intervals for table 1 (people aged1 16 to 24 in education, employment or training)

Confidence intervals (percentage points)

England

North Yorkshire

City of York

In employment

+/-0.6

+/-8.0

+/-6.5

In education

+/-0.6

+/-8.3

+/-6.8

In training (not education)

+/-0.4

+/-5.9

+/-4.9

Not in employment or education or training

+/-0.4

+/-5.5

+/-2.8