Annual education retention indicators for Rwanda compiled from the MINEDUC School Census and published in the Rwanda Statistical Yearbook 2025. Covers two cohort survival metrics -- proportion of P1 students who reach S6 within 12 years (Table 4.31) and who reach P6 within 6 years (Table 4.32) -- with entry counts, reach counts, and survival rates by sex for 7 cohort windows each; and national average (Table 4.33), primary (Table 4.34), secondary (Table 4.35), lower secondary (Table 4.36), and upper secondary (Table 4.37) promotion, repetition, and dropout rates by academic year and sex, covering 2017/18-2022/23.
| COLUMN | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | UNIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| period_label | string | Time label as published in the source. For cohort survival tables (Tables 4.31-4.32), this is a cohort window such as "2006-2017" or "2009-2020/21" (normalized to remove internal spaces, e.g., "2009- 2020/21" becomes "2009-2020/21"). For rate tables (Tables 4.33-4.37), this is an academic year in slash format, e.g. "2017/18". | - |
| start_year | int64 | Start year as integer for sorting and charting. For cohort labels this is the P1 entry year; for academic year labels this is the first calendar year of the school year. | - |
| topic | string | Data group. Values: p1_to_s6 (Table 4.31, 12-year cohort survival to S6), p1_to_p6 (Table 4.32, 6-year cohort survival to P6), national (Table 4.33, all levels), primary (Table 4.34), secondary (Table 4.35), lower_secondary (Table 4.36), upper_secondary (Table 4.37). | - |
| metric | string | Specific metric. For survival topics: entry_count (P1 cohort size), reach_count (students who reached target grade), survival_rate (percentage). For rate topics: promotion_rate, repetition_rate, dropout_rate (all percentages, 0-100 scale). | - |
| sex | string | Sex breakdown. Values: total, male, female. | - |
| value | float64 | Numeric value. For unit=count: absolute number of students. For unit=pct: percentage on a 0-100 scale. | - |
| unit | string | Unit of the value column. Values: count (entry_count and reach_count metrics), pct (survival_rate, promotion_rate, repetition_rate, dropout_rate metrics). | - |