Ecuador - Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Ecuador was 97.69 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 98.56 in 2017, while its lowest value was 35.10 in 1993.

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
1971 46.60
1972 50.27
1973 55.45
1974 52.50
1975 58.59
1976 56.58
1977 58.39
1978 72.33
1979 63.10
1987 62.68
1993 35.10
1994 72.91
1995 74.56
1996 83.70
1998 73.63
1999 74.32
2000 73.96
2001 75.64
2002 71.45
2003 71.99
2004 75.28
2005 74.95
2006 79.21
2008 97.27
2009 91.21
2010 93.38
2011 84.03
2012 93.84
2014 81.20
2015 89.99
2016 92.18
2017 98.56
2018 96.61
2019 97.69

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