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
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
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1967
1968
1969
91.95172119 1970
91.87779236 1971
92.19602966 1972
92.36116791 1973
92.35845184 1974
92.60453033 1975
92.96279144 1976
93.47322083 1977
93.4149704 1978
93.22200012 1979
93.62306213 1980
94.06774902 1981
93.6628418 1982
94.29257965 1983
95.11811829 1984
95.28736877 1985
94.52442169 1986
94.06275177 1987
94.81259918 1988
95.29328918 1989
95.41478729 1990
95.49581909 1991
95.40891266 1992
95.62003326 1993
95.67411041 1994
95.91474915 1995
96.00772858 1996
96.02639771 1997
96.1326828 1998
96.18550873 1999
96.4048996 2000
96.55216217 2001
96.71227264 2002
97.12850952 2003
97.31526947 2004
97.08239746 2005
97.01738739 2006
96.633461 2007
96.71045685 2008
96.18232727 2009
96.58930969 2010
96.46151733 2011
96.18580627 2012
96.36699677 2013
96.62397766 2014
96.98602295 2015
97.25428009 2016
97.22264862 2017
97.28214264 2018
97.28910828 2019
97.20986176 2020
97.21444702 2021
2022
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