Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for population 16–25 years, by NEET status in the United States, 2016–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (n = 53,690).
| Overall | NEET |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Chi-Square | p-value | ||
| NEET | 14.02 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Poor/Fair SRH | 6.42 | 11.30 | 5.62 | 214.91 | <0.0001 |
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 49.88 | 51.10 | 49.68 | 3.32 | 0.07 |
| Male | 50.12 | 48.90 | 50.32 | ||
| Age | |||||
| 16–18 years | 30.63 | 19.54 | 32.44 | 330.19 | <0.0001 |
| 19–21 years | 29.13 | 31.49 | 28.74 | ||
| 22–23 years | 20.05 | 24.77 | 19.28 | ||
| 24–25 years | 20.18 | 24.20 | 19.53 | ||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 54.15 | 47.66 | 55.20 | 209.50 | <0.0001 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 13.87 | 20.50 | 12.79 | ||
| Hispanic | 22.23 | 22.62 | 22.16 | ||
| Non-Hispanic other | 9.75 | 9.23 | 9.84 | ||
| Family Income | |||||
| Less than $20,000 | 24.48 | 35.27 | 22.71 | 589.65 | <0.0001 |
| $20,000 - $49,999 | 31.02 | 35.90 | 30.22 | ||
| $50,000 - $74,999 | 14.04 | 10.57 | 14.61 | ||
| $75,000 or more | 30.46 | 18.26 | 32.45 | ||
| Health Behaviors | |||||
| Cigarette in last month | 18.62 | 26.95 | 17.26 | 249.49 | <0.0001 |
| Drank alcohol in last month | 48.17 | 39.50 | 49.59 | 158.4 | <0.0001 |
| County | |||||
| Large Metropolitan Area | 56.15 | 53.00 | 56.66 | 64.09 | <0.0001 |
| Small Metropolitan Area | 30.95 | 30.75 | 30.98 | ||
| Nonmetro | 12.90 | 16.25 | 12.35 | ||
| Year | |||||
| 2016 | 33.14 | 32.83 | 33.19 | 1.34 | 0.51 |
| 2017 | 33.40 | 34.14 | 33.28 | ||
| 2018 | 33.45 | 33.02 | 33.52 | ||
| Unweighted n | 53,690 | 7,831 | 45,859 | – | – |