Paraguay - Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Paraguay was 86.74 as of 2011. Its highest value over the past 41 years was 87.71 in 2004, while its lowest value was 44.88 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
1970 48.54
1971 44.88
1972 51.41
1973 49.22
1974 46.96
1975 54.52
1976 53.76
1977 56.90
1980 58.36
1981 58.34
1982 61.04
1983 60.78
1984 61.32
1985 59.18
1986 61.28
1987 64.39
1988 65.56
1989 66.48
1990 70.45
1991 74.05
1992 76.20
1993 71.26
1994 72.87
1995 78.39
1997 78.11
1998 79.36
1999 78.12
2002 81.46
2003 81.25
2004 87.71
2005 80.99
2006 83.59
2007 83.67
2008 82.27
2009 85.54
2010 83.79
2011 86.74

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