Caribbean small states - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Caribbean small states was 78.23 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 93.29 in 2014, while its lowest value was 78.23 in 2019.

Definition: Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1974 80.60
1975 80.69
1976 81.54
1977 82.74
1978 83.17
1979 83.14
1980 86.51
1981 86.39
1982 84.56
1983 83.41
1984 83.28
1985 83.96
1986 84.75
1987 85.19
1988 86.40
1989 87.71
1990 88.85
1991 88.64
1992 88.36
1993 88.11
1994 88.03
1995 88.10
1996 88.18
1997 88.12
1998 88.02
1999 87.98
2000 84.62
2001 85.39
2002 86.13
2003 86.94
2004 86.25
2005 86.75
2006 86.45
2007 88.69
2008 90.33
2009 87.25
2010 87.52
2011 88.09
2012 87.90
2013 93.05
2014 93.29
2015 92.86
2016 90.10
2017 93.27
2018 91.80
2019 78.23

Development Relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels.

Limitations and Exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Efficiency