Costa Rica - Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) in Costa Rica was 93.35 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 94.63 in 2008, while its lowest value was 72.50 in 1973.

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 75.81
1971 74.22
1972 78.10
1973 72.50
1975 77.89
1976 75.13
1977 75.10
1978 77.26
1979 72.58
1980 77.44
1981 74.46
1984 79.12
1985 84.60
1986 80.18
1987 82.39
1988 82.39
1990 80.81
1991 83.42
1992 84.00
1993 86.72
1994 87.02
1995 86.27
1999 90.13
2000 92.83
2001 90.22
2004 83.76
2005 93.02
2006 86.16
2007 94.46
2008 94.63
2009 90.24
2010 91.69
2011 89.78
2012 88.70
2013 90.93
2014 94.51
2015 93.35

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