Youth pathways into employment

Connect education, work transitions and household circumstances to study recorded employment gaps among younger residents.

The record concepts include employment spells, employer / work transitions, earnings context, enrolment history, qualification / completion, education transitions and household composition. Inspect dated starts in recorded employment. Review study, work gaps and household context. Keep age ranges and observation time explicit.

This dataset is prepared to order. Choose the city, date range and required scope; the accepted order defines the population, final fields, formats and delivery.

Onboarded city options

Nairobi (Kenya) · Lagos (Nigeria)

Custom city requests

African Major Cities · Additional cities require availability, scope and quote confirmation.

Data type

Synthetic

Connected domains

Employment, Education, Households, Demographics

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• Labour economists
• workforce researchers
• universities
• policy institutes

Entities represented

Resident-level

This identifies the entities described by the catalogue. The analytical row grain, eligibility, keys and dates are agreed for your extract.

Explore education, work-gap and household sequences associated with earlier recorded work entry.

Record concepts for your extract

• employment spells
• employer / work transitions
• earnings context
• enrolment history
• qualification / completion
• education transitions
• household composition

The agreed specification defines the final columns, keys, relationships and observation period for your order.

State the youth age range and starting event; compare transition times and pathway frequencies while retaining those without an observed employment entry.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. Which education, work-gap and household pathways are associated with earlier entry into recorded employment among young people?
2. Which young people spend extended periods outside work and education?
3. Which young people take longest to enter a first recorded job?
4. How do work gaps vary by education and household circumstances?
5. Which pathways include repeated movement between education and work?
6. How do these patterns differ across comparable age groups and cities?

Proposed research and analytical applications

• Cohort comparison
• Longitudinal analysis
• Research design
• Sensitivity analysis

Data generation

FCTE synthetic city engine

Data classification

Synthetic

FCTE generation methods and published city/domain checks provide source context. The order defines the final extract and the release-specific checks, documentation and limitations supplied with it.

Known limitations

• State the youth age range. Formal unemployment needs job-search and availability measures; NEET additionally needs training participation, which is unverified.
• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$395 USD

Price basis

Base price per selected city

Availability

Prepared after order

The displayed catalogue amount is a base price per selected city. Your requested dates, population, fields, formats and usage rights determine the agreed scope and final quote. Applicable published discounts and taxes are confirmed with that quote.

Your prepared package

Your order confirms the data files, documentation, evidence, examples and release controls included in the prepared package.

• Agreed data extract
• Schema and field documentation
• Release-specific evidence and limitations
• Agreed loading or analysis examples
• Licence, manifest, checksums and delivery note

SD_RESEARCH_DATASET/
├── data/
│   ├── employment_records.parquet
│   ├── education_records.parquet
│   ├── household_history.parquet
│   └── citizens.parquet
├── documentation/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── DATA_DICTIONARY.csv
│   ├── SCHEMA.md
│   └── METHODOLOGY.md
├── evidence/
│   ├── CERTIFICATION.json
│   ├── VALIDATION_REPORT.pdf
│   └── KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md
├── MANIFEST.json
├── CHECKSUMS.sha256
└── LICENSE.pdf

Delivery process

Confirm the cities, date range, records, formats, rights and price in writing. The order-specific extract is then prepared and supplied under the agreed payment and delivery conditions.

One secure download package for the agreed release and licensed entity.

Delivery timing, access expiry, formats and prerequisites are confirmed in the accepted order.

Support, refreshes, future releases, hosting and APIs are included only when expressly ordered.

Data Licensing Agreement · 2026-10

A non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for the named customer within the accepted scope and duration.

Permitted use

Internal research, development, testing and analytics within the accepted order.

Model training

Model training, external applications, commercial distribution and access by other legal entities must be expressly addressed in the order.

Redistribution

Raw or substantially reconstructable data cannot be resold, published or redistributed without separate written authorization.

Attribution

Preserve release provenance and applicable third-party notices. Published outputs must identify the data as synthetic.