Niger - Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Niger was 78.11 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 81.27 in 1990, while its lowest value was 51.33 in 1971.

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

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

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Year Value
1971 51.33
1972 59.17
1973 58.73
1974 60.33
1975 65.93
1976 66.97
1977 74.49
1978 77.21
1979 62.39
1980 71.45
1981 72.17
1982 70.96
1983 72.59
1984 67.61
1986 75.16
1989 75.41
1990 81.27
1991 64.97
1992 78.32
1995 71.36
1996 73.49
1997 71.53
1998 65.99
1999 60.22
2000 71.24
2001 68.39
2002 67.18
2003 71.67
2006 69.14
2007 75.67
2008 66.32
2009 61.75
2010 69.05
2011 63.17
2012 62.26
2013 65.78
2015 78.11

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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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