South Asia - Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)

Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) in South Asia was 21.92 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 34.96 in 1971, while its lowest value was 14.40 in 1993.

Definition: Secondary vocational pupils are the number of secondary students enrolled in technical and vocational education programs, including teacher training.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1970 34.71
1971 34.96
1972 33.96
1973 33.13
1974 33.62
1975 34.66
1976 33.56
1977 28.91
1978 28.56
1979 27.10
1980 26.13
1981 28.59
1982 26.60
1983 26.99
1984 27.48
1985 28.13
1986 27.77
1987 26.44
1988 27.58
1989 30.43
1990 26.41
1991 21.96
1992 18.18
1993 14.40
1994 14.80
1995 15.75
1996 17.15
1997 17.27
1998 19.38
1999 21.39
2000 22.10
2001 20.26
2002 20.65
2003 19.13
2004 22.02
2005 24.61
2006 27.62
2007 28.69
2008 28.81
2009 29.59
2010 27.50
2011 27.74
2012 26.70
2013 25.34
2014 24.63
2015 21.91
2016 21.98
2017 21.37
2018 21.92

Development Relevance: The share of girls allows an assessment on gender composition in school enrollment. A value greater than 50% indicates participation of more girls at a specific level or programme of education.

Limitations and Exceptions: The percentage of female enrollment is limited in assessing gender parity, because it's affected by the gender composition of population. Ratio of female to male in enrollment rate provides a population adjusted measure of gender parity.

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: Percentage of female enrollment is calculated by dividing the total number of female students at a given level of education by the total enrollment at the same level, and multiplying by 100. 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: Participation