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Reasons for not being in work and not looking for work

Explore the reasons why those individuals who were inactive in the past 12 months at age 19 or age 22 and did not look for work:

Note that these insights can be visualised by country sites and by sex. For information on how we define these indicators and variables, please see our data dictionary below.

Data dictionary
Label Description
Location Household's location in round 5 (2016) survey. The sentinel sites and communities that households were sampled from in 2016 were defined as urban or rural, based on administrative definitions in each country.
Household wealth Household's wealth in round 5 (2016) survey computed using the Young Lives Wealth Index disaggregated into terciles (top, middle, bottom). The Young Lives Wealth Index is a composite index measuring households' access to services such as water and sanitation, their ownership of consumer durables such as refrigerators, and the quality of floor, roof, and wall materials in their dwelling. Households in each cohort of the Young Lives survey were categorised into terciles based on their wealth index in 2002, with the households with lowest wealth belonging to the bottom tercile, and those with the highest wealth belonging to the top tercile.
Activity

Studying: Average hours spent at school/college/university (including all time spent, not only attending hours, and travelling time, out and return), studying at home, and extra tuition outside the home.

Working (paid): Average hours spent doing activities for pay or for money outside of household or for someone not in the household.

Working (unpaid): Average hours spent doing tasks on family farm, cattle herding (household and/or community), other family business, shepherding, piecework or handicrafts done at home (not just farming).

Doing domestic tasks (including caring for others): Average hours spent doing domestic tasks (fetching water, firewood, cleaning, cooking, washing, and shopping) and caring for others (younger children or ill households members).

Playing: Average hours spent on leisure (playing, seeing frineds, using the internet, etc.)

Sleeping: Average hours spent sleeping.

Reasons for not being in work and not looking for work

Explore the reasons why those individuals who were inactive in the past 12 months at age 19 or age 22 and did not look for work:

Note that these insights can be visualised by country sites and by sex. For information on how we define these indicators and variables, please see our data dictionary below.

Data dictionary
Label Description
Location Household's location in round 5 (2016) survey. The sentinel sites and communities that households were sampled from in 2016 were defined as urban or rural, based on administrative definitions in each country.
Household wealth Household's wealth in round 5 (2016) survey computed using the Young Lives Wealth Index disaggregated into terciles (top, middle, bottom). The Young Lives Wealth Index is a composite index measuring households' access to services such as water and sanitation, their ownership of consumer durables such as refrigerators, and the quality of floor, roof, and wall materials in their dwelling. Households in each cohort of the Young Lives survey were categorised into terciles based on their wealth index in 2002, with the households with lowest wealth belonging to the bottom tercile, and those with the highest wealth belonging to the top tercile.
Activity

Studying: Average hours spent at school/college/university (including all time spent, not only attending hours, and travelling time, out and return), studying at home, and extra tuition outside the home.

Working (paid): Average hours spent doing activities for pay or for money outside of household or for someone not in the household.

Working (unpaid): Average hours spent doing tasks on family farm, cattle herding (household and/or community), other family business, shepherding, piecework or handicrafts done at home (not just farming).

Doing domestic tasks (including caring for others): Average hours spent doing domestic tasks (fetching water, firewood, cleaning, cooking, washing, and shopping) and caring for others (younger children or ill households members).

Playing: Average hours spent on leisure (playing, seeing frineds, using the internet, etc.)

Sleeping: Average hours spent sleeping.