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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Small states was 72.96 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 74.67 in 2015, while its lowest value was 62.56 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 66.51
1974 63.68
1975 62.56
1976 63.40
1977 63.93
1978 65.64
1979 66.86
1980 68.19
1981 67.95
1982 67.50
1983 67.22
1984 68.11
1985 67.47
1986 67.81
1987 67.21
1988 67.41
1989 68.35
1990 67.92
1991 67.88
1992 69.34
1993 71.87
1994 70.88
1995 68.98
1996 70.35
1997 70.66
1998 69.78
1999 69.60
2000 69.40
2001 70.04
2002 70.73
2003 70.11
2004 69.87
2005 71.09
2006 69.70
2007 71.82
2008 71.11
2009 71.96
2010 71.51
2011 73.46
2012 72.95
2013 74.44
2014 74.60
2015 74.67
2016 74.19
2017 74.37
2018 74.25
2019 72.96

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