Europe & Central Asia | 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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Europe & Central Asia
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63
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Europe & Central Asia | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
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1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 94.40042114
1971 94.3578186
1972 94.43341827
1973 94.55879974
1974 94.60500336
1975 94.73058319
1976 94.832901
1977 95.07022095
1978 94.98139191
1979 94.88124847
1980 94.72763824
1981 94.71842194
1982 94.44432068
1983 94.47834778
1984 94.6240387
1985 95.09799957
1986 94.82324982
1987 94.9380722
1988 95.05139923
1989 95.08350372
1990 95.57633972
1991 96.28317261
1992 95.78987885
1993 95.6537323
1994 95.74170685
1995 96.15236664
1996 95.75100708
1997 95.39967346
1998 96.02719879
1999 96.03473663
2000 96.4871521
2001 96.60240173
2002 96.67115021
2003 96.82855225
2004 97.06420898
2005 97.1234436
2006 97.00971222
2007 96.45114136
2008 96.32792664
2009 97.35780334
2010 96.73577118
2011 96.13863373
2012 96.26725006
2013 96.70478058
2014 95.43286896
2015 97.24221039
2016 98.01567078
2017 98.35410309
2018 98.3963623
2019 98.40802002
2020 98.32466125
2021 98.38011932
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Europe & Central Asia | 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
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source