Females not in education, employment and training: factors

Magdelin Phoku, Statistics South Africa

Young people in South Africa are considered to be future leaders of the country. One of the factors that have a negative effect on the progression of the country’s future leaders is young people Not in Education, Employment and Training (NEET). The post-2015 International Development Agenda, now called Sustainable Development Goals, proposed 17 goals, one of them being to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. The objective of this study is to do in depth analysis of young females Not in Education, Employment and Training in South Africa, given the fact that there are more female NEETs than male NEETs. We investigate which factors have an effect on female NEETs (e.g. pregnancy, disability, etc.) Female NEETs refers to persons aged 15-34 and data from the General Household Survey will be used. Factor analysis will be performed to determine which factors have a high correlation to female NEETs.