Euro area | 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).
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The World Bank
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Euro area
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63
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Euro area | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
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1964
1965
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1967
1968
1969
1970 91.95172119
1971 91.87779236
1972 92.19602966
1973 92.36116791
1974 92.35845184
1975 92.60453033
1976 92.96279144
1977 93.47322083
1978 93.4149704
1979 93.22200012
1980 93.62306213
1981 94.06774902
1982 93.6628418
1983 94.29257965
1984 95.11811829
1985 95.28736877
1986 94.52442169
1987 94.06275177
1988 94.81259918
1989 95.29328918
1990 95.41478729
1991 95.49581909
1992 95.40891266
1993 95.62003326
1994 95.67411041
1995 95.91474915
1996 96.00772858
1997 96.02639771
1998 96.1326828
1999 96.18550873
2000 96.4048996
2001 96.55216217
2002 96.71227264
2003 97.12850952
2004 97.31526947
2005 97.08239746
2006 97.01738739
2007 96.633461
2008 96.71045685
2009 96.18232727
2010 96.58930969
2011 96.46151733
2012 96.18580627
2013 96.36699677
2014 96.62397766
2015 96.98602295
2016 97.25428009
2017 97.22264862
2018 97.28214264
2019 97.28910828
2020 97.20986176
2021 97.21444702
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Euro area | 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
Euro area
Records
63
Source