Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are engaged in employment or education
Target 7: By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15-24 years) who are in employment, education or training to 67 percent.
Indicators:
Drivers:
- Proportion of youth Not Engaged in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by disability, long term health condition, caring responsibility, looking for work
- Proportion of NEET by main reason for not studying in last 12 months
Contextual information:
- For youth engaged in education:
- type of educational institution attending (school/ technical and further education/higher education)
- highest education level completed
- For youth engaged in employment:
- proportion self-employed
- proportion by occupation
- proportion by industry
- Proportion not engaged in employment, education or training (NEET) by:
- highest education level completed
- Progress towards parity
Disaggregation:
- Geographic area (jurisdiction, remoteness, other geographic categories available)
- Socio-economic status of the locality
- Single year of age (to capture compulsory education age)
- Gender
- Disability status
- Categories of engagement with employment, education or training (e.g. full time study and part-time employment, full time study, full time employment, part time study and employment)
Data Development:
Explore options to measure and report on the list of measures below, including relative importance and expected impact on the target:
- barriers to youth engagement
- caring responsibility
- financial limitations
- long term health condition
- mental health or psychological distress
- lack of transport
- homelessness
- domestic violence
- discrimination
- substance misuse
- incarceration and recidivism