Syrian Arab Republic - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Syrian Arab Republic was 93.16 as of 2011. Its highest value over the past 40 years was 96.68 in 2007, while its lowest value was 77.24 in 1977.

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
1971 82.45
1972 85.91
1973 79.21
1974 78.93
1975 82.62
1976 78.82
1977 77.24
1978 81.35
1979 78.92
1980 81.23
1981 86.30
1982 87.29
1983 89.91
1984 92.29
1985 93.87
1988 86.93
1989 85.01
1990 92.54
1991 90.33
1992 87.03
1993 86.97
1994 83.83
1995 85.22
1996 89.21
1997 82.96
1998 87.40
1999 86.94
2000 88.72
2001 88.34
2003 91.76
2004 94.21
2005 92.18
2006 95.17
2007 96.68
2008 93.49
2009 94.59
2010 95.65
2011 93.16

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