Data for: "How does the sexual, physical and mental health of young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET) compare to workers and students?"

Quantitative data and supporting documents made available to supplement a BMC paper titled “How does the sexual, physical and mental health of young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET) compare to workers and students?”. The collection contains five files: (1) a dataset containing demographic characteristics of 16–24 year old men and women overall and by education/employment status, (2) dataset on composition of the NEET group, (3) a codebook that describes variables used in the paper, (4) a dataset that contains information on the extent to which harmful health behaviours (left) and poor health outcomes (right) cluster within health domains for males who are NEET, workers and students; and (5) a dataset that contains information on the extent to which harmful health behaviours (left) and poor health outcomes (right) cluster within health domains for females who are NEET, workers and students. All files are hosted on Figshare.