Pacific island small states - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Pacific island small states was 85.05 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 41 years was 86.36 in 2015, while its lowest value was 76.35 in 1995.

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
1978 84.84
1979 83.22
1980 82.01
1981 82.91
1982 84.85
1983 83.26
1984 83.00
1985 83.95
1986 83.42
1987 82.73
1988 82.17
1989 81.40
1990 80.84
1991 79.48
1992 79.03
1993 80.50
1994 81.08
1995 76.35
1996 80.71
1997 81.63
1998 81.59
1999 78.96
2000 82.34
2001 81.50
2002 82.23
2003 83.12
2004 82.43
2005 82.41
2006 82.22
2007 83.08
2008 81.06
2009 81.64
2010 82.75
2011 82.07
2012 85.32
2013 82.58
2014 84.94
2015 86.36
2016 82.46
2017 79.73
2018 85.77
2019 85.05

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