Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are engaged in employment or education.

By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15–24 years) who are in employment, education or training to 67%.

The proportion of youth Not Engaged in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) – By disability, long term health condition, caring responsibility, looking for work

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.

National Agreement on Closing the Gap July 2020

8 March 2023

Driver

For all measures, a low or decreasing proportion is desirable.

Name: ABS Census of Population and Housing, Census Table Builder (Basic)

Frequency: Five-yearly

Documentation (links): www.abs.gov.au/census

Provider name: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Provider area: Census

Measures 1, 3 and 4

2016

Measure 2

2021

All measures

2021

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status.

Numerator divided by Denominator multiplied by 100.

Counting rules

The data is 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)

• young people ‘not engaged’ (not in work or study)
• young people ‘partially engaged’ (not in full‑time in work or study and/or training, or not in a combination of work and study and training, regardless of hours for each)

Includes (both numerator and denominator)

• Australian totals include all states and territories (including Other Territories).

Excludes (both numerator and denominator)

• people who were ‘at least partially engaged’ (engaged in either work or study but did not provide enough information to determine if they were fully or partially engaged)
• people whose engagement status was not stated, or was inadequately described
• people for whom Indigenous status was not stated.

Excludes (numerator), as relevant to measures

• people for whom need for assistance was not stated (measure 1)
• people who had a long‑term health condition was not stated (measure 2)
• people whose labour force status was not stated (measure 4).

Measure 3

Includes (numerator):

‘Provided unpaid care and assistance to a child and/or person with disability’:

• people who ‘provided unpaid assistance to a person with disability’ only (includes people whose provision of child care was not stated, but excludes people who provided both unpaid assistance and child care)
• people who ‘provided unpaid child care for their own and/or other children’ only (includes people whose provision of care for person with disability was not stated, but excludes people who provided both unpaid assistance and child care)
• people ‘provided unpaid assistance to a person with disability’ AND people who ‘provided unpaid child care for their own and/or other children’.

Excludes (numerator):

‘Did not provide unpaid care and assistance’:

• people who ‘did not provide unpaid assistance to a person with disability’ AND people who ‘did not provide unpaid child care for their own and/or other children’.

‘Provision of unpaid care or assistance not stated’:

• people who did not state if they ‘provided unpaid assistance to a person with disability’ AND did not state if they 'provided unpaid child care for their own and/or other children’
• people who responded with a combination of did not provide and did not state whether they provided 'unpaid assistance to a person with disability' and 'unpaid child care for their own and/or other children'.

Extraction

Census Table Builder (Basic) – Employment, Income and Education:

• Measure 1: INGP X EETP (STUP X LFSP/HRSP prior to 2016) X Main ASGS (UR) X AGE5P X ASSNP.
• Measure 2: INGP X EETP X Main ASGS (UR) X AGE5P X HOLHP.
• Measure 3: INGP X EETP (STUP X LFSP/HRSP prior to 2016) X Main ASGS (UR) X AGE5P X UNCAREP X CHCAREP.
• Measure 4: INGP X EETP (STUP X LFSP/HRSP prior to 2016) X Main ASGS (UR) X AGE5P X LFSP.

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.

Future reporting will seek to include the following additional disaggregations:

• remoteness areas and other small geographic areas (where available)
• socio‑economic status of the locality
• gender
• age.