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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Caribbean small states was 83.84 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 89.76 in 2017, while its lowest value was 74.25 in 1974.

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 74.25
1975 74.28
1976 75.17
1977 75.87
1978 78.70
1979 78.03
1980 80.58
1981 79.56
1982 77.79
1983 76.58
1984 75.81
1985 75.29
1986 75.05
1987 74.47
1988 75.57
1989 77.08
1990 78.28
1991 78.41
1992 78.60
1993 78.71
1994 78.95
1995 79.32
1996 79.66
1997 79.90
1998 80.14
1999 80.48
2000 77.68
2001 78.83
2002 79.81
2003 80.91
2004 80.52
2005 81.27
2006 81.52
2007 84.19
2008 85.69
2009 84.25
2010 83.92
2011 85.86
2012 86.72
2013 88.65
2014 89.35
2015 89.20
2016 86.55
2017 89.76
2018 88.84
2019 83.84

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