Scars of early non-employment for low educated youth: evidence and policy lessons from Belgium

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 2 Dividing the sample between the low and the high educated

Completed education	Low educated	High educated	Total
1	2		2
2	36		36
3	89		89
4	113		113
5	185		185
6	1,111		1,111
7	366	289	655
8		55	55
9		707	707
10		367	367
11		232	232
12		33	33
13		1	1
Total	1,902	1,684	3,586

“Completed education” refers to the number of years of education successfully attained from the beginning of secondary education, i.e. since age 12. The low educated attained at most secondary education, which consists in 7 years of education in case of vocational track and 6 years for all other educational programmes. The high educated attained a higher education than secondary education, since they successfully passed strictly more than 7 years of education in case of vocational track and strictly more than 6 years of education if enrolled in all other educational programs