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LFS: Economically Inactive: UK: All: Aged 16-64: Thousands: SA
8,999
2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
Characteristics of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET), England: March 2021
What's in the bulletin?
- In the 2021 Census, around one in eight females (12.9%) and one in seven males (14.1%) aged 16 to 24 years in England reported not being in education, employment, or training (NEET).
- Young people were NEET because of unemployment (females 34.2%, males 50.2%), long-term sickness or disability (females 11.4%, males 13.3%), looking after family or home (females 28.0%, males 6.0%), or other reasons (females 26.4%, males 30.5%).
- Almost two in five young people who provided 50 or more hours of unpaid care per week were NEET (females 39.9%, males 38.7%), compared with around one in eight young people who provided no care (females 12.6%, males 13.7%).
Time series related to Economic inactivity
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8,999 2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
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20.7 % 2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
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25.7 % 2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
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0.4 % 2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
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1,023 000's 2025 NOV-JAN
- Release date:
- 19 March 2026
- Next release:
- 21 April 2026
Datasets related to Economic inactivity
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INAC01 SA: Economic inactivity by reason (seasonally adjusted)
Economic inactivity (aged 16 to 64 years ) by reason (seasonally adjusted). These estimates are sourced from the Labour Force Survey, a survey of households. These are official statistics in development.
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INAC01 NSA: Economic inactivity by reason (not seasonally adjusted)
Economic inactivity (aged 16 to 64 years) by reason (not seasonally adjusted). These estimates are sourced from the Labour Force Survey, a survey of households. These are official statistics in development.
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A02 SA: Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for people aged 16 and over and aged from 16 to 64 (seasonally adjusted)
Labour Force Survey summary data, including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity levels and rates, UK, rolling three-monthly figures published monthly, seasonally adjusted. These are official statistics in development.
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A02 NSA: Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for people aged 16 and over and aged from 16 to 64 (not seasonally adjusted)
Labour Force Survey summary data, including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity levels and rates, UK, rolling three-monthly figures published monthly, non-seasonally adjusted. These are official statistics in development.
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A05 SA: Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity by age group (seasonally adjusted)
Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity levels and rates by age group, UK, rolling three-monthly figures, seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.
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A05 NSA: Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity by age group (not seasonally adjusted)
Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity levels and rates by age group, UK, rolling three-monthly figures, not seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.
Publications related to Economic inactivity
Statistical bulletins
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Characteristics of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET), England: March 2021
Sociodemographic, health, education and employment characteristics of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who were not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in England in 2021. These estimates are derived from Census 2021 data and are not comparable with our headline UK estimates of young people who were NEET using Labour Force Survey data.
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Labour market overview, UK: March 2026
Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.
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Employment in the UK: March 2026
Estimates of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for the UK.
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Labour market in the regions of the UK: March 2026
Regional, local authority, and parliamentary constituency breakdowns of changes in UK employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity, and other related statistics. These are official statistics in development.
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Working and workless households in the UK: October to December 2025
The economic status of households in the UK and the people living in them, where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years. Taken from the Labour Force Survey.
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Workless households for regions across the UK: 2024
Annual information at a local level about households and the adults and children living in them, by their economic activity status.
Articles
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Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK
Experimental statistics estimating the different health conditions of the working-age population and those economically inactive because of long-term sickness.