Pupils entering primary school for the first time, excluding repeaters, are counted by national authorities. Country-specific definitions, methods, and targets are determined by the countries themselves. The Global Partnership for Education provides this data.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in primary school access by comparing annual new entrant counts across countries.
- Model national enrollment rates using country-reported new entrant figures and population estimates.
- Assess progress toward education targets by tracking year-over-year changes in new entrants.
- Identify disparities in school entry by comparing new entrant data across different geographic regions.
Strengths
- Data is collected at the national level, providing country-level indicators.
- Excludes repeaters to focus specifically on first-time school entry.
Limitations
- Country-specific definitions limit direct cross-national comparability.
- Sample size, row count, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Data may be stale as the last update date is unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Global Partnership for Education via the World Bank platform.
- Collection Method
- Country-reported data using nationally determined definitions and collection methods.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- National-level data from multiple countries.