Alagoas has the second highest number of unemployed young people.
Alagoas is the second state in the country in terms of the number of young people who have no daily occupation. This is the conclusion of the Synthesis of Social Indicators – An Analysis of the Living Conditions of Brazilians, released this Friday (29) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to the data, 27,4% of young people in Alagoas aged between 15 and 29 are idle, that is, they neither work nor study. The state is only surpassed by Amapá.
Alagoas247 - In terms of demographics, IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) separated three age groups (between 15 and 17 years old; from 18 to 24 years old; and from 25 to 29 years old). In the middle group, Alagoas is leading – it has 35,2% of young people who neither study nor work. It is precisely at these ages that they were migrating from high school to college and entering the job market.
In the 15-17 age group, Alagoas is also in the lead. 13,9% of teenagers are idle. The rate is 27,6% in the state when the age group is between 25 and 29 years old.
One in five young Brazilians aged 15 to 29 were neither working nor attending school in 2012, with approximately 70% being women. This group, known as "neither-nor" (or "neither-nor"), comprises 9,6 million people and was highest among young people aged 18 to 24 (23,4%). In the 15-17 age group, the proportion was 9,4%.
Among NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) women, 58,4% had at least one child. The proportion increases with age: 30% of girls aged 15 to 17, 51,6% of those aged 18 to 24, and 74,1% of the group aged 25 to 29.
Among 15- to 17-year-olds who were neither in school nor working, 56,7% had not completed primary education, even though they should have been attending secondary school, according to recommendations from the Ministry of Education.
Regarding people aged 18 to 24, who should have at least completed high school, only 47,4% of those who were neither working nor studying had completed this level of education. The majority (52,6%) had incomplete high school education.
According to researchers, the situation is worrying for people aged 25 to 29 who were neither working nor studying, since 51,5% had incomplete secondary education, 39,2% had completed secondary education, and 9,3% had incomplete or completed higher education.
According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), among women aged 15 to 17 who did not have children, 88,1% were studying, while only 28,5% of those who had one or more children were studying. A total of 68,7% of them were neither studying nor had completed high school.
Among women aged 18 to 24, 40,9% of those who did not have children were still studying, 13,4% were not studying and had incomplete high school education, and 45,6% were not studying but had at least completed high school.
In the same age group, among those who had children, only 10% were studying, 56,7% were not studying and had at least an incomplete high school education, and 33,3% were not studying and had at least a completed high school education.
With gazetaweb.com and Agência Brasil