Hannah Barnes

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509 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2011 last heard Oct 2013

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More or Less · Youth Unemployment · 8 Apr 2011 podcast

And there are an awful lot of employed students, 870,000 at the last count. voice-verified

Yeah, exactly. voice-verified

All employment rates are calculated as percentages of the economically active population, not the total population. voice-verified

So in the case of students, if you say they shouldn't be counted as employed or unemployed, then the denominator that you're using to calculate the results is shrinking. voice-verified

And just a little basic number crunching tells you that if you class all young people in full-time education as economically inactive, then the headline rate for youth unemployment stays the same. voice-verified

I put that point to Chris Grayling. voice-verified

But as I said, if you count students all in the same way, the headline rate, that one in five, while the overall number is fewer, you still end up with 20%. voice-verified

Well, putting the statistics debate aside, even so, the figures are still pretty bad. voice-verified

Hundreds of thousands of young people are unemployed, even discounting students. voice-verified

But is it fair to call today's young people a lost generation? voice-verified

I've been speaking to Simon Briscoe from economic data company Timetric. voice-verified

Yeah, we've asked the Office for National Statistics to give us a bit more data so we can get a better picture of the work that's being carried out by 18 to 24-year-olds in full-time education. voice-verified

And Simon's helped us out with the analysis. voice-verified

More or Less · Small spending cuts? · 1 Apr 2011 podcast

You can find out more about our programme on our website. matched

But before you do that, here's Tim Hart... Oh. matched

So what's the lyric at that point, that one-minute mark? matched

Turning to the maths behind this, how complicated was it? matched

How did you go about it? matched

And is there? matched

The More or Less team is Richard Varden, Richard Knight, Wesley Stevenson and me, Hannah Barnes. matched

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