Viet Nam SDGCW Survey

2020-2021
Education
Attendance Rates and Inequalities
School Net Attendance Rates (adjusted)

Early Childhood Education (36-59 months) 80.5

1 year before the official primary entry age 97.6

Primary 98.2

Lower secondary 93.0

Upper secondary 78.1

0 20 40 60 80 100
Percent

Percentage of children of intended age for level of education attending level of education for age or higher, by level of
education

Inequalities in Attendance of Early Childhood Education and Participation in Organized Learning

Participation Rate in Organized Learning

Early Childhood Education Attendance Rate (age 3-4) (1 year before the official primary entry age) SDG 4.2.2

Male, 97.8 Rural, 99.0 Uni./College+,

100 National 100 100.0
Richest, 92.8 97.6
Red River Uni.,College,
90 Delta, 93.3 Kinh/Hoa, 90 Female,
91.6 Urban, 94.5
80.2 97.5
80.5 No Education,
80 80
87.6
70 Poor, 70.2 70
Percent
Percent

60 60
No
Education,
50 59.8 50
Mekong
40 Delta, 47.6 40 National
Khmer, 37.8
30 30
Wealth Quintile Region Mother's Education Ethnicity Sex Area Mother's Education

Percentage of children aged 36-59 months who are attending Percentage of children one year younger than the official
early childhood education primary school entry age at the beginning of the school
year who are attending an early childhood education
programme or primary school (adjusted net attendance
rate)
 Inequalities in Attendance Rates

Primary School Lower Secondary School Upper Secondary School

Net Attendance Rate (adjusted) Net Attendance Rate (adjusted) Net Attendance Rate (adjusted)
Male; Kinh/Hoa, Red River Rich, 98.2 Richest,
98.5 Urban; Rich; 99.2 94.5 Urban,
100.0 98.4 100 Delta, 98.7 100 Kinh/Hoa, 96.4
82.3 85.0
Female, Rural, Poorest,
80.0 98.0 98.2 97.2 80 80
Poorest, 81.1
Central
Highland Rural,
60.0 60 s, 87.0
60
Mong, 74.7
62.8
40.0 40 40 Poorest,
51.2

20.0 20 20
National Mong, National
National
0 4.2
0.0 0
Sex Area Wealth Ethnicty Region Wealth Ethnicity Area Wealth
Quintile Quintile Quintile

Percentage of children of primary school Percentage of children of lower Percentage of children of upper
age (as of beginning of school year) who secondary school age (as of beginning secondary school age (as of beginning
are attending primary, lower or upper of school year) who are attending of school year) who are attending
secondary school lower secondary school or higher upper secondary school or higher

Regional Data for Net Attendance Rates (adjusted)

Participation rate
Early Childhood
in organized Primary Lower Secondary Upper Secondary
Region Education
learning (age 6-10) (age 11-14) (15-17)
(age 3-4)
(age 5)

National 80.5 97.6 98.2 93 78.1

Red River Delta 93.3 99.5 99 98.7 92.9

Northern Midlands and Mountainous Area 95.1 99.1 98.1 93.1 76.1

North Central and Central Coastal Area 84.8 100 97.9 96.4 83.8

Central Highlands 74.2 98.2 97.2 87 63.8

South East 77.1 91.5 97.7 90.7 69.8

South East 77.1 91.5 97.7 90.7 69.8

Mekong River Delta 47.6 96.1 98.5 87.2 63.9

Key Messages
• For SDG indicator 4.2.2, 97.6 percent likely to attend organized learning primary school level is quite high
of children age 5 attend organized programmes than one whose mother nationwide and not much different
learning programmes, either in early havs no education. among sub-groups. However, at
childhood education (73.0 percent) • For every 10 children age 3-4 years, lower and upper secondary school
or primary school (24.6 percent). This more than eight attend early levels, the adjusted net attendance
rate in urban areas (94.5 percent) is childhood education. While there is rate positively correlates with the
lower than than in rural areas (99.0 little difference between urban and household wealth quintile and
percent). While differences between rural areas, or between boys and mother’s education level. It varies
boys and girls or among regions are girls, there are disparities across among ethnic groups, with the
not significant, the attendance rate regions, wealth index quintiles, highest rate among the Kinh/Hoa
correlates with the mother’s mother’s education levels, and age ethnic group and the lowest rate
education. A child whose mother has groups. among the Mong ethnic group.
tertiary education or higher is more • The adjusted net attendance rate at
 Completion Rates: SDG 4.1.2
Percentage of children age 3-5 years above the intended age for the last grade who have completed that grade, by level of
education

Primary 98.3
Lower secondary 86.8
Upper secondary 58.1

0 20 40 60 80 100
Percent
Inequalities in Completion Rates

Primary School Completion Rate Lower Secondary School Completion Rate Upper Secondary School
Completion Rate
Percentage of children age 3-5 years Percentage of children age 3-5 years Percentage of children or youth age 3-
above the intended age for the last grade above the intended age for the last 5 years above the intended age for the
of primary school who have completed grade of lower secondary school who last grade of upper secondary school
primary education have completed lower secondary who have completed upper secondary
education education

Richest,
Female, 98.6 Urban, 98.4 Rich, 100.0 Female, Urban, Kinh/Hoa, 98.1 Richest,
100 98.3 100 89.6 90.7 90.0 100 91.8

Male, Rural, 86.8 Urban,

Poorest, 74.8
80 98.1 98.3 80 80 Female, Kinh/Hoa,
94.6 Male, Rural,
65.0 62.9
83.9 84.5
60 60 Poorest, 60 58.1
Percent

67.1
Mong, 54.9 Male,
40 40 40 51.4 Rural,
46.4

20 20 Poorest,
20 31.0
Khmer, 16.0
National National 0 National
0
0
Sex Area Ethnicity Wealth Sex Area Ethnicity Wealth
Sex Area Wealth Quintile
Quintile Quintile

Regional Data on Completion Rates

Primary Lower Secondary Upper Secondary

Region
(age 6-10) (age 11-14) (age 15-17)

National 98.3 86.8 58.1

Red River Delta 99.7 98.9 76.5
Northern Midlands and Moutainous Area 96.5 85.5 41.7
Northern Central and Central Coastal Area 99.2 93.6 64.6
Central Highlands 95.4 68.0 31.0
South East 97.9 81.2 60.8
Mekong River Delta 98.3 74.3 43.1
 Out-of-School Rates
Out-of-School Dimensions for Education Dimension 1: Children aged one year younger than
primary entry age not attending an early childhood
DE1 2.5
2.2 education programme or primary school

DE2 1.3 Dimension 2: Children of primary school age who are

1.1 not attending any level of education

DE3 5.3 Dimension 3: Children of lower secondary school age

5.9
who are not attending any level of education
DE4 0.9
0.9 Dimension 4: Children who are in primary school but at
risk of dropping out (over-age for grade by two or more
DE5 0.7 years)
1.0 Female Male
Dimension 5: Children who are in lower secondary
0 2 4 6 8
Percent
school but at risk of dropping out (over-age for grade by
two or more years)
SDG Summary for Education
Value
SDG MICS
Definition and Notes Lower Upper
Indicator Indicator Primary
Secondary Secondary
4.1.2 LN.8a,b,c Completion rate 98.3% 86.8% 58.1%
4.5.1 LN.5a Gender Parity Indices (attendance, girls/boys) 0.99 1.00 1.03
4.5.1 LN.5b Wealth Parity Indices (attendance, poorest/richest) 0.98 0.83 0.53
4.5.1 LN.5c Area Parity Indices (attendance, rural/urban) 0.99 0.97 0.88
Total Boys Girls
Participation rate in organized learning (one year before
4.2.2 LN.2 97.6% 97.8% 97.5%
the official primary entry age)

Key Messages
• School completion rates decrease as only 51.4 percent of boys complete wealth index quintiles and mother’s
education levels increase. Overall, compared to 65.0 percent of girls. education levels.
98.3 percent of children complete The differential in completion rates • By ethnicity, Khmer and Mong
primary school, 86.8 percent among children in both lower and children are less likely to complete
complete lower secondary school and upper secondary education is also lower and upper secondary school
58.1 percent complete upper observed between rural and urban than their peers in other ethnic
secondary school. areas, with a wider gap for upper groups.
• At primary and lower secondary secondary.
education levels, there is almost no • At the lower and upper secondary
differential between girls and boys, school levels, the completion rate
however at upper secondary level, positively correlates with household

The Survey measuring Sustainable support was provided by UNICEF and LN.1.1, LN.1.2, LN.2.3, LN.2.4, LN.2.5 ,
Development Goal Indicators on UNFPA. LN.2.6 and LN.2.7 in the Survey
Children and Women (SDGCW) Viet The objective of this snapshot is to Findings Report.
Nam was carried out in 2020-2021 by disseminate selected findings from Further statistical snapshots and the
the General Statistics Office as part of the Viet Nam SDGCW Survey 2020- Survey Findings Report for this and
the global MICS programme of 2021 related to Education. Data from other surveys are available at
UNICEF. Technical and financial this snapshot can be found in Tables mics.unicef.org/surveys.