What is the best way to measure youth unemployment ?

Youth unemployment eases, but youth unemployment crisis continues

The UK’s youth unemployment crisis is ongoing.

So how different does the youth unemployment picture look when the alternative measure of youth unemployment is used?

The latest unemployment data release marks the first anniversary of ONS publishing its alternative measure of youth unemployment, which excludes people in full-time education.

ONS started reporting the alternative measure of youth unemployment in its April 2011 data release following pressure from Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith, who argued that the internationally-accepted ILO measure of youth unemployment was “misleading.”

The CIPD suggests that Iain Duncan Smith’s demand for a rethink on the reporting of youth unemployment could have been influenced by the CIPD’s own thinking on youth unemployment. The CIPD stated in 2011 that it favours the alternative measure of youth unemployment…

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