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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Small states was 76.55 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 78.56 in 2018, while its lowest value was 68.00 in 1975.

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
1973 72.72
1974 68.87
1975 68.00
1976 69.32
1977 70.04
1978 71.25
1979 72.13
1980 73.09
1981 73.26
1982 72.75
1983 72.12
1984 73.46
1985 73.47
1986 74.83
1987 73.63
1988 74.05
1989 74.69
1990 74.89
1991 73.52
1992 74.63
1993 78.38
1994 77.09
1995 74.91
1996 75.95
1997 76.80
1998 75.91
1999 75.49
2000 75.64
2001 74.77
2002 76.63
2003 75.63
2004 75.42
2005 75.53
2006 74.00
2007 76.24
2008 75.91
2009 75.41
2010 75.02
2011 76.63
2012 75.64
2013 77.93
2014 77.80
2015 78.15
2016 77.58
2017 78.12
2018 78.56
2019 76.55

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