Table 1 gives estimates of the number and proportion of people aged1 18 to 24 not in education employment or training (NEET) in each region in quarter 3 2009. This information is from the Labour Force Survey. Please note quarterly estimates are heavily affected by seasonality and peak in quarter 3.
We are unable to produce NEET estimates for 18 to 24-year-olds by local authority as the sample sizes are too small, however we do have estimates for 16 to 24 year old NEET by local education authority taken from the 2008 Annual Population Survey. These estimates are given in table 2. Please note that these figures are not comparable with those in table 1, as they are for a different age group and a different time period.
All of the estimates given are subject to sampling variability and should therefore be treated with caution and viewed in conjunction with their Confidence Intervals2 (CIs), which indicate how accurate an estimate is. For example, a CI of +/-4.2 percentage points (pp) means that the true value is between 4.2pp above the estimate and 4.2pp below the estimate.
1 Age used is respondents academic age, which is defined as their age at the preceding 31 August.
2 Those given are 95 per cent. confidence intervals.
In December 2009, the Government published Investing in Potential, our strategy to increase the proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds in education, employment or training and reduce the proportion of those who are NEET. This can be found here:
http://publications.dcsf.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction= productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=DCSF-01145-2009
Region Number NEET Percentage NEET 95 per cent. Confidence Interval North East 67,000 25.7 +/-4.6 North West 160,000 23.7 +/-27 Yorks and Humber 103,000 20.2 +/-2.9 East Midlands 76,000 18.1 +/-3.1 West Midlands 109,000 22.1 +/-3.1 East of England 78,000 17.2 +/-2.9 London 148,000 18.7 +/-2.6 South East 118,000 16.6 +/-2.3 South West 73,000 17.0 +/-3.0 England 933,000 19.7 +/-1.0 Base: 18 to 24-year-olds Source: Q3 2009 Labour Force Survey
Number NEET Percentage NEET 95 per cent. Confidence Interval England 857,000 14.3 +/-0.4 Barking and Dagenham 4,000 20 +/-7 Barnet 7,000 19 +/-8 Barnsley 5,000 19 +/-6 Bath and North East Somerset 2,000 9 +/-4 Bedfordshire 4,000 8 +/-4 Bexley 3,000 14 +/-8 Birmingham 29,000 20 +/-5 Blackburn with Darwen 2,000 16 +/-5 Blackpool 2,000 12 +/-5 Bolton 4,000 12 +/-5 Bournemouth 3,000 14 +/-5 Bracknell Forest 2,000 13 +/-6 Bradford 9,000 14 +/-5 Brent 4,000 14 +/-7 Brighton and Hove 4,000 12 +/-4 Bristol 9,000 14 +/-5 Bromley 5,000 16 +/-8 Buckinghamshire 5,000 11 +/-5 Bury 3,000 14 +/-5 Calderdale 4,000 18 +/-6 Cambridgeshire 8,000 11 +/-5 Camden 3,000 10 +/-5 Cheshire 9,000 13 +/-4 Cornwall 5,000 10 +/-5 Coventry 9,000 19 +/-5 Croydon 6,000 16 +/-9 Cumbria 2,000 5 +/-4 Darlington 1,000 12 +/-6 Derby 4,000 13 +/-5 Derbyshire 10,000 14 +/-5 Devon 5,000 6 +/-3 Doncaster 8,000 22 +/-6 Dorset 3,000 8 +/-5 Dudley 8,000 19 +/-5 Durham 11,000 17 +/-5 Ealing 5,000 13 +/-7 East Riding of Yorkshire 5,000 14 +/-6 East Sussex 8,000 17 +/-6 Enfield 3,000 12 +/-7 Essex 21,000 14 +/-4 Gateshead 4,000 21 +/-6 Gloucestershire 6,000 10 +/-5 Greenwich 4,000 16 +/-8 Hackney 5,000 20 +/-8 Halton 3,000 23 +/-6 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,000 12 +/-7 Hampshire 16,000 11 +/-3 Haringey 6,000 20 +/-8 Harrow 3,000 13 +/-7 Hartlepool 3,000 27 +/-7 Havering 2,000 7 +/-5 Herefordshire 2,000 12 +/-6 Hertfordshire 14,000 13 +/-4 Hillingdon 4,000 15 +/-7 Hounslow 6,000 22 +/-8 Isle of Wight 2,000 18 +/-7 Islington 3,000 14 +/-6 Kensington and Chelsea 3,000 16 +/-9 Kent 25,000 17 +/-4 Kingston upon Hull 8,000 18 +/-5 Kingston upon Thames 2,000 11 +/-6 Kirklees 8,000 19 +/-6 Knowsley 5,000 20 +/-5 Lambeth 4,000 12 +/-7 Lancashire 21,000 14 +/-4 Leeds 20,000 15 +/-4 Leicester 9,000 18 +/-5 Leicestershire 9,000 14 +/-5 Lewisham 5,000 19 +/-8 Lincolnshire 10,000 13 +/-4 Liverpool 10,000 15 +/-5 Luton 4,000 16 +/-5 Manchester 13,000 16 +/-4 Medway 5,000 18 +/-6 Merton 3,000 15 +/-9 Middlesbrough 5,000 24 +/-6 Milton Keynes 2,000 9 +/-5 Newcastle upon Tyne 6,000 10 +/-4 Newham 4,000 12 +/-6 Norfolk 15,000 17 +/-5 North East Lincolnshire 4,000 21 +/-7 North Lincolnshire 2,000 15 +/-6 North Somerset 2,000 7 +/-4 North Tyneside 4,000 20 +/-7 North Yorkshire 7,000 12 +/-5 Northamptonshire 12,000 14 +/-5 Northumberland 4,000 11 +/-5 Nottingham 7,000 12 +/-4 Nottinghamshire 12,000 14 +/-5 Oldham 7,000 25 +/-6 Oxfordshire 6,000 8 +/-4 Peterborough 4,000 20 +/-6 Plymouth 3,000 8 +/-4 Poole 2,000 12 +/-5 Portsmouth 3,000 8 +/-4 Reading 2,000 11 +/-5 Redbridge 4,000 14 +/-7 Redcar and Cleveland 4,000 27 +/-7 Richmond upon Thames 2,000 12 +/-8 Rochdale 3,000 14 +/-5 Rotherham 7,000 24 +/-7 Rutland * * * Salford 6,000 22 +/-5 Sandwell 9,000 26 +/-6 Sefton 7,000 19 +/-6 Sheffield 13,000 16 +/-5 Shropshire 3,000 10 +/-5 Slough 2,000 14 +/-5 Solihull 4,000 18 +/-7 Somerset 7,000 13 +/-6 South Gloucestershire 2,000 7 +/-4 South Tyneside 3,000 16 +/-5 Southampton 4,000 10 +/-4 Southend on Sea 3,000 20 +/-7 Southwark 6,000 16 +/-7 St Helens 4,000 21 +/-6 Staffordshire 11,000 11 +/-4 Stockport 4,000 13 +/-5 Stockton-on-Tees 4,000 18 +/-6 Stoke-on-Trent 5,000 19 +/-6 Suffolk 11,000 16 +/-5 Sunderland 6,000 15 +/-5 Surrey 8,000 8 +/-3 Sutton 1,000 8 +/-7 Swindon 3,000 16 +/-6 Tameside 6,000 23 +/-6 Telford and Wrekin 3,000 15 +/-6 Thurrock 3,000 17 +/-6 Torbay 2,000 12 +/-5 Tower Hamlets 7,000 22 +/-7 Trafford 3,000 13 +/-5 Wakefield 7,000 16 +/-5 Walsall 5,000 17 +/-6 Waltham Forest 6,000 18 +/-7 Wandsworth 3,000 12 +/-9 Warrington 3,000 14 +/-5 Warwickshire 6,000 13 +/-6 West Berkshire 1,000 9 +/-6 West Sussex 8,000 11 +/-4 Westminster 5,000 15 +/-7 Wigan 5,000 13 +/-5 Wiltshire 7,000 15 +/-6 Windsor and Maidenhead 1,000 10 +/-6 Wirral 6,000 20 +/-7 Wokingham 2,000 11 +/-6 Wolverhampton 9,000 29 +/-7 Worcestershire 5,000 8 +/-5 York 1,000 4 +/-3 * = Data has been suppressed as the sample is too small. Base: 16 to 24-year-olds Source: 2008 Annual Population Survey