Youth
EU Dashboard
The EU Youth Strategy (2010-2018) seeks to promote better educational and job opportunities for young people, as well as active citizenship, social inclusion and solidarity. It places evidence-based policy making at the core of youth policy. According to the strategy, better knowledge and understanding of the economic and social situation of young women and men needs to be gathered and shared with other policy fields so as to enable appropriate and timely measures to be taken.
Therefore, a dashboard of EU Youth indicators was developed in order to provide a quick and comprehensive cross-sectoral view of the economic and social situation of young people in the EU. It includes data from several sources and covers the following topics:
- Education and training
- Employment and entrepreneurship
- Health and well-being
- Social inclusion
- Culture and creativity
- Youth participation
- Volunteering
- Youth and the world
The dashboard is the result of the extensive contributions and successful deliberations of the Expert Group on EU Youth Indicators and is presented in a Commission Staff Working Document on EU Indicators in the Field of Youth released in 2011. The indicators presented here are based on data from Eurostat.
| Contextual indicators | Data | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Child and youth population (0-14, 15-29 years) |  | Eurostat, Demography |
| Ratio of young people in the total population (15-29 years) | | Eurostat, Demography |
| Estimated average age of young people leaving the parental household | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Education and training | Data | Source |
| Early leavers from education and training | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Tertiary education attainment | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Young people (20-24 years) having completed upper secondary education | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Young people learning at least two foreign languages | | Eurostat, UOE |
| Employment and entrepreneurship | Data | Source |
| Youth unemployment | ||
| | Eurostat, LFS |
| | Eurostat, LFS |
| | Eurostat, LFS |
| Young employees with a temporary contract | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Youth self-employed | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Young people not in employment and not in any education and training (NEET) | | Eurostat, LFS |
| Health and well-being | Data | Source |
| Daily smokers | | Eurostat, EHIS |
| Obesity | | Eurostat, EHIS |
| Crude death rate by suicide | | Eurostat, Causes of death |
| Psychological distress | | Eurostat, EHIS |
| Injuries following road accidents | | Eurostat, EHIS |
| Social inclusion | Data | Source |
| At-risk-of-poverty or exclusion rate (union of the three sub-indicators below): | | Eurostat SILC |
| At-risk-of-poverty rate (sub-indicator 1) | | Eurostat SILC |
| Severe material deprivation rate (sub-indicator 2) | | Eurostat SILC |
| Young people living in households with very low work intensity (sub-indicator 3) | | Eurostat SILC |
| Self-reported unmet needs for medical care | | Eurostat SILC |
| Youth participation: use of Internet | Data | Source |
| Young people using Internet for interaction with public authorities | | Eurostat, ICT Survey |
| Young people using Internet for accessing or posting opinions on websites for discussing civic and political issues | | Eurostat, ICT Survey |