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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Eswatini was 80.16 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 82.34 in 2016, while its lowest value was 51.72 in 1970.

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
1970 51.72
1971 61.25
1972 67.48
1973 63.13
1974 60.00
1975 54.09
1976 58.22
1977 55.49
1978 56.31
1979 58.88
1980 67.23
1981 60.08
1982 62.23
1983 63.65
1984 63.11
1985 57.40
1986 64.93
1987 63.19
1988 55.78
1989 71.32
1990 62.69
1991 64.54
1992 64.43
1993 66.02
1994 73.76
1995 56.35
1996 62.12
1997 65.26
1998 67.79
1999 63.16
2000 53.64
2001 60.61
2002 53.15
2004 67.44
2005 80.33
2006 69.61
2009 81.24
2012 72.19
2013 75.62
2014 75.94
2015 76.36
2016 82.34
2018 80.16

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. 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