Childhood educational, social and health factors associated with the timing and recurrence of NEET status into adulthood: a prospective birth cohort study

Background: Being not in education, employment or training (NEET) has far-reaching consequences for both health and economic outcomes. Identifying what contributes to, and can predict, becoming NEET is therefore necessary to mitigate negative downstream outcomes. A single measure of whether a young person is NEET can conceal differences in when disengagement occurs, whether it recurs, and what the antecedents are. Methods: We examined childhood educational, social and health characteristics in relation to three dimensions of later NEET: 1) number of occasions of NEET, 2) age at first observed

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