Entering the labour market for the first time or after long breaks may be particularly challenging for people with low educational attainment (i.e.those who have completed primary education, lower secondary education or less). Over 6 million women (17 %) and 2 million men (6 %) with low levels of qualifications across the EU have never been employed (aged 20-64, whose main status is not a student).
People with low levels of qualifications have completed primary education, lower secondary education or less.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |