Tunisia - Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Tunisia was 96.77 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 96.84 in 2004, while its lowest value was 63.07 in 1972.

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

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

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Year Value
1971 67.94
1972 63.07
1973 70.01
1974 84.32
1975 84.17
1976 86.51
1977 87.94
1978 84.56
1979 85.83
1980 86.75
1981 86.61
1982 87.66
1983 87.05
1984 87.51
1985 87.48
1988 85.93
1989 87.28
1990 87.34
1991 86.57
1992 87.64
1993 90.50
1994 91.67
1995 92.39
1996 91.01
1998 91.60
1999 92.16
2000 93.10
2001 95.46
2002 96.15
2003 96.49
2004 96.84
2005 96.73
2006 96.43
2007 96.08
2008 96.09
2009 96.19
2012 95.70
2013 94.45
2014 96.28
2015 88.50
2016 96.77

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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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