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

Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) in Eswatini was 96.61 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 96.61 in 2018, while its lowest value was 65.71 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 65.71
1971 76.55
1972 75.98
1973 75.52
1974 71.52
1975 69.54
1976 73.10
1977 69.77
1978 71.09
1979 72.68
1980 76.57
1981 69.45
1982 73.10
1983 74.46
1984 74.91
1985 70.48
1986 77.29
1987 75.90
1988 71.81
1989 77.16
1990 74.28
1991 73.94
1992 74.22
1993 75.96
1994 84.55
1995 72.70
1996 72.79
1997 77.65
1998 81.25
1999 72.27
2000 69.07
2001 77.32
2002 73.99
2004 81.39
2005 91.26
2006 74.95
2009 95.08
2012 88.02
2013 92.55
2014 92.18
2015 91.77
2016 95.13
2018 96.61

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