Algeria - Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Algeria was 91.89 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 97.67 in 2012, while its lowest value was 80.53 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
1972 85.49
1973 83.56
1974 80.53
1975 83.49
1976 83.74
1977 83.56
1978 85.78
1979 85.17
1980 84.29
1981 85.28
1982 88.34
1983 89.27
1984 92.11
1985 94.48
1986 91.54
1987 92.00
1988 90.55
1989 91.54
1990 92.63
1991 93.36
1992 92.45
1993 93.31
1994 91.03
1995 94.57
1996 94.85
1998 95.72
1999 96.11
2000 97.40
2001 97.26
2002 97.48
2003 97.39
2004 97.13
2005 95.62
2006 97.49
2007 97.27
2009 97.10
2010 95.13
2011 94.55
2012 97.67
2013 94.54
2014 94.64
2015 94.06
2016 95.98
2017 97.25
2018 91.89

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