Young people aged 16 to 24 who are disabled and not in education, employment or training in 2020

Release date:
21 April 2021

You asked

​​I would like to request the below information:

  • The proportion of young people aged 16 to 24 years that are Equality Act disabled and not in education, employment or training in 2020.
  • Information on the number or proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness living in lone parent households, with most recent available data.
  • The number or proportion of children and/or young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness who live in a household without internet access, with most recent available data.
  • Information on the number or proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness, in households where adults are not in education, employment or training.
  • Information on the number or proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness, living in poverty.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry relating to a number of statistics on children and young adults who are considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010 or have a life-limiting illness.

With regards to the proportion of disabled young people not in education, employment or training in 2020, and the number of proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with a life-limiting illness living in a household were adults are not in education, employment or training, please see the following information:

We hold the following analysis related to this:

However, we do not hold the specific analysis requested. This can be obtained from the customer services team of ONS Social Services division. This team provides an ad hoc analysis service, including, of relevance in this instance, tabulations of Labour force (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS) data, both of which contain question variables relating to disability and health-related conditions. Please note, this service is subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate.

The LFS does not collect data on disability status for people under 16 years. Details of the variables included in these datasets can be viewed in the LFS User Guides https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/labourforcesurveyuserguidance

If you would like to enquire about our service then please contact socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk

If you are able to do your own cross-tabulations you could purchase an anonymised LFS or APS dataset from the UK Data Service. Details on costs and how to download the data can be found on their website:

Advice for commercial users:  http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-toaccess/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users

Charges: http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx

With regards to information on the number or proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness living in lone parent households, we produce statistics on families and children in the UK by family type including married couples, cohabiting couples and lone parents based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS): https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/datasets/familiesandhouseholdsfamiliesandhouseholds

The LFS does not collect data on disability status for people under 16 years. Details of the variables included in the Labour Force Survey can be viewed in the LFS User Guides:  https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/labourforcesurveyuserguidance

As aforementioned, we may be able to create a custom output for further analysis on this (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). However, such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: pop.info@ons.gov.uk

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publishes results from the Family Resources Survey (FRS), providing information on income and circumstances of UK households. The FRS is a continuous household survey which collects information, including disability and family circumstances, on a representative sample of private households in the United Kingdom. These statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-resources-survey--2

For more information about this publication, please contact the DWP at team.frs@dwp.gov.uk

With regards to information on number or proportion of disabled children living in a household without internet access:

We produce statistics on internet access including frequency of internet usage in Great Britain by disability status: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/householdcharacteristics/homeinternetandsocialmediausage/datasets/internetaccesshouseholdsandindividualsreferencetables

Unfortunately, we do not hold data on the number or proportion of disabled children living in a household without internet access.

For more information, please contact: esociety@ons.gov.uk

With regards to the number or proportion of children and young people who are disabled or with life-limiting illness, living in poverty:

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publishes statistics on the number and proportion of people living in low income households for the financial years 1995 to 2020. These statistics contain annual estimates of the numbers of children, working-age adults and pensioners living in relative and absolute low income, together with statistics on children living in low income according to the presence of disability in the household. These statistics can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020

For more information please contact DWP: team.hbai@dwp.gov.uk

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