Uruguay - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Uruguay was 88.56 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 99.52 in 2015, while its lowest value was 76.36 in 1973.

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
1970 83.91
1971 85.15
1972 90.42
1973 76.36
1977 86.34
1984 94.04
1985 85.95
1986 91.80
1987 92.35
1988 93.54
1989 93.54
1990 92.30
1991 92.23
1992 93.08
1993 91.45
1994 93.96
1995 95.79
1996 92.84
1997 93.54
1998 85.21
2000 86.66
2001 92.12
2002 86.98
2003 89.56
2004 93.65
2005 92.45
2006 93.58
2007 94.31
2008 95.18
2009 94.74
2010 94.04
2011 99.20
2012 98.98
2013 99.16
2014 98.80
2015 99.52
2016 88.56

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