The 2024 Labour Force Survey module on "Young people on the labour market" focused on identifying the abandoned educational paths and the reasons for discontinuing these studies, as well as on the relationship between job requirements and young people’s academic training and skills.

Among the population aged 15 to 34, 16.8% of respondents said they have not completed at least one level of education. Of these, half (50.8%) have dropped out of a tertiary education course. The main reasons for dropping out were "financial or work-related reasons" (30.1%) and the perception that "the course was too difficult or did not meet interests or needs" (28.2%).

In the sub-group of those with tertiary education, 12.4% completed at least one vocationally oriented qualification at upper secondary or post-secondary level, thus having had work experience as part of the school curriculum.

In the population aged 16 to 34 who are employed or who, although not employed, have previous work experience, one in five (20.8%) considered their level of education to be higher than the requirements of the job they do (or did) and a similar proportion (22.7%) reported having more skills than necessary to carry out their job duties. Nevertheless, in the sub-group of those who have completed upper secondary education or higher, 41.3% considered that their field of education fully or almost fully meets their job requirements.