Paper commissioned for the EFA global monitoring report 2012, youth and skills: putting education to work: schooling profiles: between and within country differences

This report consists of a large data exercise based upon a household survey, yielding education indicators for an array of countries, at both national and sub-national levels. Specifically, the expected total intake into primary school at different ages, as well as repetition and dropout rates and survival rates for each grade are calculated, allowing the reconstruction of the expected path of children entering the education system. Because schooling profiles may vary significantly by children's background, disaggregated calculations are also obtained for dimensions within a country (e.g., gender, wealth, regions, ethnicity), as well as overlapping dimensions (e.g., wealth and gender). The reconstructed cohort model is adopted for this exercise. Furthermore, a preliminary analysis of the main drivers of expected cohort completion rates is included.