Caribbean small states - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Caribbean small states was 81.14 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 91.48 in 2017, while its lowest value was 77.33 in 1974.

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
1974 77.33
1975 77.39
1976 78.28
1977 79.23
1978 80.89
1979 80.52
1980 83.47
1981 82.89
1982 81.07
1983 79.91
1984 79.41
1985 79.49
1986 79.77
1987 79.71
1988 80.88
1989 82.25
1990 83.46
1991 83.40
1992 83.36
1993 83.29
1994 83.39
1995 83.60
1996 83.81
1997 83.93
1998 83.99
1999 84.12
2000 81.06
2001 82.04
2002 82.90
2003 83.85
2004 83.30
2005 83.93
2006 83.91
2007 86.39
2008 87.97
2009 85.71
2010 85.68
2011 86.96
2012 87.29
2013 90.81
2014 91.28
2015 91.00
2016 88.29
2017 91.48
2018 90.29
2019 81.14

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