Driver
Proportion of youth Not Engaged in Employment, Education or Training (NEET)
By disability, long term health condition, caring responsibility, looking for work
Measure 1
Proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who have a need for assistance with core activities
Nationally in 2021, 3.4 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people were not fully engaged in employment, education or training and reported that they had a need for assistance with core activities, compared to 37.9 per cent that did not need assistance (figure SE7a.1). This is an increase of 1 percentage point for persons with a need for assistance with core activities, and around a 2 percentage point decrease for persons that do not have a need for assistance with core activities since the 2016 baseline year.
![Figure SE7a.1 shows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people not fully engaged in employment; education or training, 15-24 years old, Australia, by year, by need for assistance with core activities. More details can be found within the text near this image.](https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/annual-data-report/2023/report/tabvizpngs/FigureSE7a.1.png)
Description4 | 2016 | 2021 |
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Has need for assistance with core activities | 2.4 | 3.4 |
Does not have need for assistance with core activities | 39.4 | 37.9 |
Need for assistance with core activities not stated | 1.0 | 0.7 |
Measure 2
Proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who have a long-term health condition
Nationally in 2021, 3.0 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people were not fully engaged in employment, education or training and reported that they had one or more long term health conditions, compared to 37.9 per cent that did not have a long term health condition (figure SE7a.2). This is the first year the Australian Bureau of Statistics has collected data on long term health conditions in the Census of Population and Housing.
![Figure SE7a.2 shows the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people not fully engaged in employment; education or training, 15-24 years old, Australia, by year, by long term health condition. More details can be found within the text near this image.](https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/annual-data-report/2023/report/tabvizpngs/FigureSE7a.2.png)
Description4 | 2021 |
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Has long term health condition | 3.0 |
Does not have long term health condition | 37.0 |
Long term health condition not stated | 1.9 |
Measure 3
Proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who provide unpaid assistance or childcare
Nationally in 2021, 12.6 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people were not fully engaged in employment, education or training and reported that they provided unpaid care or assistance to a child or person with disability, compared to 29.0 per cent reporting they did not (figure SE7a.3). This is a decrease of around 3 percentage points for persons that provided unpaid care or assistance to a child or person with disability, and around a 3 percentage point increase for persons that did not provide unpaid care or assistance to a child or person with disability since the 2016 baseline year.
![Figure SE7a.3 shows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people not fully engaged in employment; education or training, 15-24 years old, Australia, by year, by provision of unpaid assistance. More details can be found within the text near this image.](https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/annual-data-report/2023/report/tabvizpngs/FigureSE7a.3.png)
Description4 | 2016 | 2021 |
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Provided unpaid care and assistance to a child and/or person with disability | 15.1 | 12.6 |
Did not provide unpaid care or assistance | 26.0 | 29.0 |
Provision of unpaid care or assistance not stated | 1.7 | 0.4 |
Measure 4
Proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who are unemployed and looking for work
Nationally in 2021, 10.2 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people were partially engaged via part time employment, 8.2 per cent were actively looking for work (i.e. unemployed) and 23.6 per cent were not actively looking for work (i.e. not in the labour force) (figure SE7a.4). This is an increase of around 1 percentage point in persons that were partially engaged via part time employment, and in persons not in the labour force, and around a 3 percentage point decrease in persons that were actively looking for work since the 2016 baseline year.
![Figure SE7a.4 shows the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people not fully engaged in employment; education or training, 15-24 years old, Australia, by year, by labour force status. More details can be found within the text near this image.](https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/annual-data-report/2023/report/tabvizpngs/FigureSE7a.4.png)
Description4 | 2016 | 2021 |
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Employed; worked part-time | 9.0 | 10.2 |
Unemployed; looking for part-time or full-time work | 11.1 | 8.2 |
Not in the labour force | 22.7 | 23.6 |
Indicator data specifications
Related outcome: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are engaged in employment or education. |
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Related target: | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15-24 years) who are in employment, education or training to 67 per cent. |
Indicator: | The proportion of youth Not Engaged in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) – By disability, long term health condition, caring responsibility, looking for work |
Measure: | This indicator has four measures. Measure 1 is the proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who have a need for assistance with core activities, defined as: Numerator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education and training and who have a need for assistance with core activities Denominator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years and is presented as a percentage. Measure 2 is the proportion of people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who have a long-term health condition, defined as: Numerator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education and training and who have one or more long-term health condition(s) Denominator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years and is presented as a percentage. Measure 3 is the proportion of people aged 15-24 years not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who provided unpaid care, defined as: Numerator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who provided unpaid assistance to a person with disability and/or unpaid child care for their own and/or other children Denominator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years and is presented as a percentage. Measure 4 is the proportion of people aged 15-24 years not fully engaged in employment, education or training and who are unemployed and looking for work, defined as: Numerator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training, who are unemployed (looking for part time or full time work) Denominator — number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-24 years and is presented as a percentage. |
Indicator established: | National Agreement on Closing the Gap July 2020 |
Latest dashboard update for the indicator: | 8 March 2023 |
Indicator type: | Driver |
Interpretation of change: | For all measures, a low or decreasing proportion is desirable. |
Data source: | Name: ABS Census of Population and Housing, Census Table Builder (Basic) Frequency: Five-yearly Documentation (links): www.abs.gov.au/census |
Data provider: | Provider name: Australian Bureau of Statistics Provider area: Census |
Baseline year: | Measures 1, 3 and 4 2016 Measure 2 2021 |
Latest reporting period: | All measures 2021 |
Disaggregations: | State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status |
Computation: | Numerator divided by Denominator multiplied by 100 Counting rules Data are for all Australian residents enumerated in the Census that reported having a usual residence in Australia. Geographical variables are based on a person’s place of usual residence. For all measures Includes (numerator)
Includes (both numerator and denominator)
Excludes (both numerator and denominator)
Excludes (numerator), as relevant to measures
Measure 3 Includes (numerator): ‘Provided unpaid care and assistance to a child and/or person with disability’:
Excludes (numerator): ‘Did not provide unpaid care and assistance’:
‘Provision of unpaid care or assistance not stated’:
Extraction Census Table Builder (Basic) – Employment, Income and Education:
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Data quality considerations: | Data values have been randomly adjusted using perturbation to avoid the release of confidential data. Measure 2: The Census variable ‘Whether has one or more long-term health conditions(s)’ is a new question for the 2021 Census. Data are not available for 2016. The Census 'Core Activity Need for Assistance' concept was developed to identify people with a 'profound or severe core activity limitation' using similar criteria to the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC). |
Future reporting: | Additional disaggregations required for future reporting:
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