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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Pacific island small states was 83.77 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 86.22 in 1977, while its lowest value was 77.30 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
1970 82.08
1971 82.18
1972 83.38
1973 83.30
1974 83.07
1975 83.56
1976 84.61
1977 86.22
1978 85.68
1979 84.26
1980 81.70
1981 82.40
1982 84.84
1983 83.10
1984 82.59
1985 83.37
1986 83.05
1987 82.60
1988 82.22
1989 81.64
1990 81.34
1991 80.15
1992 78.84
1993 79.56
1994 79.67
1995 77.30
1996 80.24
1997 80.42
1998 80.51
1999 78.94
2000 80.49
2001 79.36
2002 81.00
2003 82.72
2004 82.05
2005 82.07
2006 81.94
2007 82.40
2008 81.48
2009 81.63
2010 82.28
2011 80.65
2012 84.70
2013 83.43
2014 83.48
2015 85.76
2016 82.62
2017 80.18
2018 84.65
2019 83.77

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