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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Seychelles was 96.61 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 98.32 in 2002, while its lowest value was 83.32 in 1975.

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 91.35
1971 89.98
1973 91.40
1974 91.22
1975 83.32
1977 88.89
1979 88.97
1980 96.44
1981 96.95
1982 94.80
1983 96.55
1984 98.19
1985 95.07
1986 94.02
1987 94.71
1988 95.30
1991 92.67
1992 94.61
1993 95.37
1996 95.33
1997 94.48
1998 95.92
1999 96.35
2000 90.95
2001 97.80
2002 98.32
2003 88.30
2007 92.34
2008 94.93
2009 95.56
2010 96.04
2013 87.94
2014 92.31
2015 97.07
2017 96.81
2018 97.18
2019 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. 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