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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Tunisia was 94.17 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 94.85 in 2009, while its lowest value was 48.38 in 1972.

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
1971 56.28
1972 48.38
1973 58.15
1974 77.50
1975 78.67
1976 80.93
1977 82.09
1978 73.67
1979 74.87
1981 78.25
1982 78.84
1983 78.65
1984 78.25
1985 78.41
1988 76.26
1989 79.07
1990 77.96
1991 76.37
1992 78.40
1993 83.92
1994 86.14
1995 87.10
1996 85.23
1998 86.51
1999 87.18
2000 88.34
2001 92.10
2002 93.16
2003 93.29
2004 93.51
2006 94.28
2007 94.13
2008 94.68
2009 94.85
2012 94.13
2013 93.97
2014 93.21
2016 94.17

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