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Employment status

Explore the employment status of Older Cohort individuals in the past 12 months:

This pie chart shows the percentage of young people according to their employment status (employed, unemployed and inactive) alongside those who are ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) by country site, household wealth, location and sex at ages 19 and 22. For information on how we define these variables and descriptors, please find 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.

Employment status

Explore the employment status of Older Cohort individuals in the past 12 months:

This pie chart shows the percentage of young people according to their employment status (employed, unemployed and inactive) alongside those who are ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) by country site, household wealth, location and sex at ages 19 and 22. For information on how we define these variables and descriptors, please find 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.