Mexico - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Mexico was 96.95 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 98.66 in 2016, while its lowest value was 48.36 in 1974.

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
1974 48.36
1975 55.19
1976 64.63
1977 59.39
1978 69.66
1979 63.92
1980 64.93
1981 65.64
1982 68.77
1983 70.31
1984 67.85
1985 70.94
1986 71.51
1987 68.96
1988 71.68
1989 69.75
1990 71.56
1991 75.52
1992 77.87
1993 81.05
1994 82.08
1995 83.93
1996 83.27
1998 86.75
1999 87.22
2000 87.15
2001 88.99
2002 91.15
2003 90.38
2004 91.62
2005 92.14
2006 92.35
2007 91.51
2008 94.01
2009 94.15
2010 95.01
2011 95.75
2012 94.57
2013 95.71
2014 95.72
2015 92.19
2016 98.66
2017 94.94
2018 96.95

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