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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Costa Rica was 94.89 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 95.74 in 2007, while its lowest value was 65.67 in 1974.

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 77.24
1971 76.49
1972 79.23
1973 73.99
1974 65.67
1975 81.31
1976 76.37
1977 78.06
1978 80.51
1979 74.88
1980 79.80
1981 76.54
1982 83.87
1983 84.56
1984 81.34
1985 85.61
1986 81.38
1987 83.68
1988 82.72
1989 84.54
1990 82.41
1991 84.17
1992 85.38
1993 87.96
1994 88.62
1995 87.63
1999 91.50
2000 93.69
2001 91.60
2004 86.60
2005 93.77
2006 87.63
2007 95.74
2008 95.66
2009 91.18
2010 92.88
2011 91.03
2012 89.88
2013 91.81
2014 94.77
2015 95.24
2016 94.89

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