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This report provides the first analysis of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) in the partner countries of the European Training Foundation (ETF), on the basis of available data, and includes a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of using this analysis for policy interventions. Bearing in mind the increasing interest in and usage of the NEET concept by the European Union (European Commission, Eurostat and Eurofound), the OECD, the World Bank and many industrialised countries (UK, Canada and USA), the report also aims at raising awareness among policy makers in the partner countries on the extent of the phenomenon and its determining factors, as well as identifying policy actions to address it. The report starts with a conceptual debate in Chapter 1. The chapter contains a literature review on the meaning and usage of the concept, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of its use in industrialised countries. Chapter 2 moves the attention towards developing and transition countries and presents the first overall analysis of NEETs in the 18 partner countries for which basic data is available. It also includes a descriptive analysis of the main risk factors for becoming NEET in 12 countries (age, gender and education). In addition, a specific attempt is made to analyse the links between educational attainment and NEETs, in particular the relationship between upper secondary enrolment rates, early school leavers and NEETs. Chapter 3 delivers an in-depth analysis of the NEET situation in the four countries for which we had access to raw datasets from labour force surveys (LFS)--namely, Albania, Egypt, Georgia and Palestine. Thus the selection of these case studies was based on the availability of access to LFS raw data. The analysis describes the proportion of young people that belong to the different subgroups of NEET indicator (unemployed, family carers, discouraged workers and other inactive categories), looking at trends in young people's transition from education to the labour market and comparing the NEET category with other labour market indicators. This chapter also investigates other factors influencing the probability of becoming a NEET (for example, socio-economic background and cultural elements). Chapter 4 gives an overview of policy responses to address the NEET issue, according to the three main types of intervention--namely, prevention policies, reintegration policies and compensation policies. It reviews the key policy interventions observed or implemented in different partner countries to address the problems of NEETs, and discusses some of these policy measures based on the risk factors identified in previous chapters. Finally, Chapter 5, starting with the key results of the NEET analysis, gives a list of policy conclusions and recommendations for ETF partner countries based on these findings.(ERIC)