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Proportion of early school leavers higher for non-EU citizens than for nationals: Eurostat

Xinhua, August 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

The proportion of young non-European Union (EU) citizens affected by early leaving from education and training is more than twice that of citizens of the reporting country in the EU, said Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU in a press release on Friday.

"Nationals" means residents who are citizens of the reporting country. "Foreign citizens" means residents who are not citizens of the reporting country. Foreign citizens are further divided into citizens of another EU member state and non-EU citizens (citizens of a country outside the EU).

Young non-EU citizens have also a greater risk of being both out of the education system and not in employment, said Eurostat.

One in every four non-EU citizens aged 18-24 in the EU has left education or training prematurely, compared with 10.2 percent of nationals and 19.2 percent of citizens of another EU member state.

A clear gender pattern can be observed: in each of these three groups of citizenship, men were more likely to leave education without having completed upper secondary level. However, the gap between men and women is narrower for non-EU citizens, said Eurostat.

The "NEET" rate corresponds to the percentage of the population aged 15-24 who are not employed and not involved in further education or training.

In the EU in 2014, the NEET rate was much higher for non-EU citizens than for both nationals and citizens of another EU member state.

It should be noted that, while NEET rates in the EU are almost equal for men and women for nationals, a significant gap can be observed for foreign citizens, where the rate for women is significantly higher than for men both for non-EU citizens and for citizens of another EU member state.

Moreover, more than 40 percent of non-EU citizens aged 18 to 64 had a low education level in the EU, while this proportion was around 25 percent for both citizens of the reporting country (nationals) and for citizens of another EU member state.

However, discrepancies were lower for the share of the population with a high education level, which stood at 23.0 percent for non-EU citizens, compared with 27.3 percent for nationals and 31.0 percent for citizens of another EU member state. Endit