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Thursday, 14 December 2017

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Youth Unemployment Measures

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of progress on pathways to work 2016-2020 to reduce the ratio between youth and overall unemployment from 2.2:1 to less than 2:1 by the end of 2017. [53795/17]

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The average values for overall unemployment, youth unemployment, and the ratio between them for the years 2012 to 2016 are as follows:

-Unemployment rate (%)
YearTotalAged <25Ratio of youth to total
2012
14.7
30.4
2.07
2013
13.1
26.7
2.05
2014
11.3
23.9
2.13
2015
9.4
20.9
2.21
2016
7.9
17.2
2.17

Full-year and end of year unemployment figures for 2017 will not be available until early-mid 2018 when the Labour Force Survey for Q4 2017 is published.

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