Costa Rica | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
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. 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. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source
Costa Rica | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
71.18345642 1970
72.0803833 1971
75.70272827 1972
68.42778015 1973
65.37944031 1974
77.06645203 1975
71.38427734 1976
73.58029175 1977
75.55458832 1978
70.23103333 1979
74.71954346 1980
70.39920044 1981
77.0811615 1982
78.77667236 1983
75.83351898 1984
80.64359283 1985
75.97016907 1986
78.78164673 1987
77.46643066 1988
78.85324097 1989
77.17494202 1990
79.36943054 1991
80.80898285 1992
83.16745758 1993
84.0756073 1994
83.04976654 1995
1996
1997
1998
88.59706879 1999
90.48474121 2000
88.42237854 2001
2002
2003
83.59726715 2004
90.46083832 2005
83.83509064 2006
93.84937286 2007
94.21405792 2008
88.79862976 2009
91.04400635 2010
88.4569931 2011
87.7201767 2012
90.36730194 2013
93.86456299 2014
94.41477203 2015
93.33883667 2016
2017
2018
2019
97.3942337 2020
2021
2022
Costa Rica | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
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. 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. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Costa Rica
Records
63
Source