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<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) use the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to provide
estimates for the number of people employed on zero hours’ contracts.</p><p> </p><p>The
ONS figures for people in employment on zero hours’ contracts broken down by age,
do not go back to 2010 and are only currently available up to April-June 2018. Therefore
no directly comparable figures to the youth unemployment statistics cited are available.</p><p>
</p><p>The majority of young people are not employed on zero hours’ contracts. In
2018 (Apr-Jun) there were 261,000 16-24 year olds on a zero hours’ contracts – representing
only 6.9% of employed 16-24 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>This is down from 299,000 young
people (7.8% of employed young people) in 2017 (Apr-Jun), but a slight increase from
the first comparable data available, which shows in 2014 (Apr-Jun) there were 235,000
young people on a zero hours’ contract (or 6.3% of employed young people).</p><p>
</p><p>Many people in full-time education are employed on zero hours’ contracts, in
part because of the flexibility they provide. 18.5% of all people in 2018 (Apr-Jun)
on zero hours’ contracts were in full-time education – compared to 2.3% of people
not on a zero hours’ contract.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS data shows that the majority
of people on zero hours’ contracts are happy with the hours provided by their zero
hours’ contract.</p>
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