Early school leavers (i23)

Definition: share of young people aged 18 to 24 with at most a lower secondary school degree who did not receive any education or training during the 4 weeks preceding the interview. This education level corresponds to the levels 0-2 of the 2011 ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) for data from 2014 onwards and to the levels 0-3C of the 1997 ISCED for data up to 2013. The data come from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Statistics Belgium organises this EU-harmonised survey in Belgium and makes the results available, in particular to Eurostat. The survey methodology was reviewed in 2017. Comparison of the 2017 data with previous years should be done with caution. The data used here come from Eurostat, which publishes detailed and comparable results between EU Member States. Since these data are based on surveys, a margin of uncertainty should be taken into account. This margin of uncertainty increases as the indicator is calculated on smaller sub-populations. The confidence intervals for these data are available on request from Statistics Belgium.