VILNIUS — A poll released on Thursday showed a stark portrait of how young Lithuanians live today, including 22 percent unemployment among the least educated and living with their parents until age 28 on average.

The poll, which was conducted by Eurostat, compiled statistics on people ages 15 to 29 from each of the 27 European Union member states.

The average age Lithuanians finally move out of their parents’ home is on the later end of the EU member state average: 29.1 years old for men and 27.8 for women. Men in Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia stay, on average, until 31.5 years of age, and women in Italy, Slovenia and Slovakia stay until some time late in their 29th year. France, Finland and the Netherlands had the youngest leavers across the sexes, ranging from 23 to 24. Lithuanian young adults stay at home the longest of the three Baltic states.

In all countries profiled, women left the house before men.

Tomas Milevičius, deputy head of the family division at the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, said that young Lithuanians might be staying with their parents later because of a mixture of familial and financial reasons.

“It might be because of emotional ties,” Milevičius told Baltic Reports. “It might be because of the economy, of the possibility to save.”

However, he questioned the methodology of the statistics.

“If we are looking at the statistics of emigration, quite a few people are studying abroad or living abroad. It means automatically that they are not living with their family,” Milevičius said.

Across the EU, young people are facing an antagonistic job market. Those with a low education level, defined as up to lower secondary school, had a 19.3 percent unemployment rate. Those who have gone to upper secondary school had a 9.1 percent unemployment rate, and those with higher education had a 5.9 percent rate. Except for people with higher education, Lithuania had a higher unemployment rate than the EU average, at 22.4 percent for low education level, 17.3 percent for upper secondary school graduates, and 5.7 percent for those with higher education.

The report said that the numbers for the least and most educated had reduced reliability because of the small sample size.