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.
dismantlethesun|7 years ago
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.
[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm
[2] https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm