Costa Rica - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Costa Rica was 96.61 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 96.61 in 2015, while its lowest value was 70.08 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 72.83
1971 74.87
1972 77.40
1973 70.08
1975 80.80
1976 74.18
1977 77.11
1978 79.71
1979 73.15
1980 77.53
1981 73.43
1984 78.42
1985 81.89
1986 77.35
1987 80.17
1988 77.98
1990 79.22
1991 80.40
1992 82.49
1993 84.76
1994 86.02
1995 85.24
1999 90.24
2000 91.50
2001 89.90
2004 86.52
2005 91.65
2006 85.64
2007 95.58
2008 95.61
2009 90.03
2010 92.51
2011 89.71
2012 89.34
2013 91.36
2014 94.58
2015 96.61

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