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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Cyprus was 98.85 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 99.50 in 1991, while its lowest value was 70.47 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/)

See also:

Year Value
1971 97.11
1972 98.71
1973 97.63
1974 70.47
1975 94.96
1976 98.47
1977 99.23
1978 99.16
1979 98.76
1980 98.89
1981 98.51
1982 99.47
1983 98.83
1984 98.83
1985 99.17
1986 98.61
1987 99.21
1988 99.24
1989 99.13
1990 98.42
1991 99.50
1992 99.05
1993 99.03
1994 99.43
1999 95.01
2000 99.07
2001 98.20
2002 98.00
2003 99.16
2004 98.64
2005 98.74
2006 98.88
2007 95.37
2012 95.01
2013 92.20
2014 97.93
2015 98.33
2016 98.85

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