Malawi - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Malawi was 54.63 as of 2013. Its highest value over the past 40 years was 59.39 in 2012, while its lowest value was 24.12 in 1982.

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
1973 32.63
1974 35.36
1975 25.60
1976 27.13
1977 25.26
1978 25.42
1979 33.13
1980 28.78
1981 29.96
1982 24.12
1983 27.47
1984 36.09
1985 38.83
1986 51.09
1987 35.74
1988 45.84
1989 42.22
1990 36.97
1991 47.42
1992 38.57
1993 27.73
1995 26.54
1999 33.84
2001 30.97
2004 32.33
2005 35.97
2006 34.90
2007 57.35
2008 41.74
2009 53.59
2010 51.55
2011 47.72
2012 59.39
2013 54.63

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