National statistics

Participation in education, training and employment: 2019

Updates to national participation figures for end 2018 and provisional estimates for the end of 2019.

Applies to England

Documents

Main text: participation and NEET 2019

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Main tables: participation and NEET 2019

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Additional tables - numbers: participation and NEET 2019

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Additional tables - rates: participation and NEET 2019

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Technical document - data sources and methodology: participation and NEET 2019

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Underlying data - numbers and rates: participation and NEET 2019

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Details

This statistical release provides national participation in education, training and employment figures for 16 to 18 year olds to the end of 2019.

It contains information from different post-16 learning options, including:

  • school
  • further education colleges
  • apprenticeships
  • higher education

Headline measures are the percentages of 16 to 18 year olds:

  • in education and apprenticeships
  • who are not in education, employment or training (NEET)

Breakdowns are set out by:

  • age
  • gender
  • mode of study
  • type of learning
  • institution type (for example, further education colleges, schools)
  • labour market status
  • highest qualification being studied

The additional tables show figures dating from 1985.

Post-16 statistics team

Sally Marshall, Data Insight and Statistics Division
Department for Education
2 St Paul’s Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
S1 2FJ

Published 25 June 2020