Eswatini - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Eswatini was 86.39 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 86.71 in 2009, while its lowest value was 49.33 in 1970.

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
1970 49.33
1971 60.82
1972 65.79
1973 67.03
1974 64.71
1975 65.05
1976 64.59
1977 63.31
1978 64.35
1979 65.56
1980 70.07
1981 64.70
1982 63.79
1983 67.39
1984 68.86
1985 64.43
1986 72.07
1987 69.32
1988 66.34
1989 73.39
1990 66.37
1991 69.13
1992 69.05
1993 72.55
1994 77.29
1995 59.62
1996 67.99
1997 69.17
1998 75.45
1999 66.20
2000 63.88
2001 54.29
2002 70.92
2004 75.16
2005 85.90
2006 73.55
2009 86.71
2012 77.37
2013 81.49
2014 82.49
2015 84.66
2016 86.42
2018 86.39

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