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

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Eswatini was 98.16 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 98.16 in 2018, while its lowest value was 66.57 in 1970.

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 66.57
1971 77.40
1972 78.06
1973 80.02
1974 77.08
1975 75.40
1976 77.01
1977 76.73
1978 77.48
1979 79.00
1980 81.09
1981 75.00
1982 75.46
1983 78.86
1984 80.29
1985 77.55
1986 85.51
1987 77.62
1988 83.02
1989 81.24
1990 78.10
1991 80.46
1992 79.61
1993 81.55
1994 88.77
1995 76.19
1996 78.85
1997 83.50
1998 86.91
1999 88.13
2000 79.27
2001 69.23
2002 79.97
2004 87.32
2005 96.88
2006 85.91
2009 97.42
2012 90.75
2013 95.42
2014 95.64
2015 97.23
2016 95.17
2018 98.16

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