Re:The United States of Japan
by emodendroket on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:27PM
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Unemployment rates only include people actively seeking work (actually, this is a common criticism of the figures, since they don't include people who've just given up).
Unemployment numbers in the US don't include students.
Re:The United States of Japan
by dismantlethesun on Sunday May 06, 2018 @11:40PM
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The US unemployment rate includes students, so long as they were seeking work at for at least one season of the year.
If you look at it on a month-to-month basis, it is seasonally adjusted, as students typically seek work during the summer [1].
If you look at it, the unemployment rate for 16 year old's is incredibly high---at ~16% [2]. These people like OP said, are nearly universally in schooling and would not be counted as NEETs.
I can't say though how the NEET score is calculated in Japan. If it is so strict as to only include people who have never held a job, education, or training of any kind during the year then it can't be compared to any unemployment statistic as those would typically drop someone if they worked once or gave up.
Either ways, comparing it is bad---which is what the grand-poster is getting at, so I think we all agree.
You would need to compare to people who are both unemployed and also not in school.
Hence the unemployment number of 16-19 year old versus NEETS, would be very skewed as most of those people on those age in the US are legally required to be attending school thus can't be NEETs.