You asked
Please provide estimates of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) aged 16-24 by ethnicity in 2019.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request asking for the ethnicity breakdown of 16 to 24 year-olds not in employment, education or training (NEET) in 2019.
Our most recent production of NEET statistics is available via the following link: Young people not in education, employment or education. However, these do not include ethnicity.
In 2018, we produced an ad hoc bespoke dataset, commissioned by another user, which may be of interest. This provides the percentage of 16 to 24 year-olds not in employment, education or training by ethnicity between 2014 and 2016. This can be accessed via the following link: Young people not in education, employment or education (NEET) by ethnicity, 2014-2016.
Unfortunately, we would be unable to create a bespoke dataset with figures for 2019, similar to that above, in answer to your Freedom of Information request. In order to fulfil this request, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to do a special extract and tabulation of data. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
However, a bespoke dataset involving ethnicity data in 2019 would be available to commission as an ad hoc production. Please note that in order to have a sufficient sample to produce reliable results, the above NEET ethnicity statistics were produced from a special three-year pooled dataset. It is not something that generally has a sufficient sample to produce statistically robust results from our normal dataset.
The production of such a dataset would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate. If you would like to request this, please contact us via email at pop.info@ons.gov.uk to discuss.
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Please do not hesitate to contact us directly at pop.info@ons.gov.uk if you require anything further.