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children who had dropped out of school was 3 percentage points higher for males (10%) than for females
(7%) (see Table 6.5).
We found geographic disparities of at least six percentage points in the percentage of children
who had dropped out of school in Burkina Faso (urban: 13% and rural: 21%) and Madagascar (urban: 9%
and rural: 15%). We found smaller discrepancies, three to four percentage points, in Mali (urban: 5% and
rural: 9%), Democratic Republic of Congo (urban: 7% and rural: 11%), and Zimbabwe (urban: 5% and
rural: 9%) (see Figure 6.13 and Table 6.5).
The role of the household head’s sex and age
Overall, there was no association between the sex of the household head and major differences in
the percentage of children who dropped out of school (see Figure 6.14). In Burkina Faso children in a
household whose head was age 50 or older were over five percentage points more likely to have dropped
out than children in households headed by a younger person (24% versus 17%) (see Table 6.5).
Variations during the last 13 years
Reductions of at least six percentage points in the percentage of children age 7-17 years who
dropped out school took place only in Benin (2001: 20% and 2006: 14%), Ghana (2003: 14% and 2008:
7%), Kenya (2003: 11% and 2008-09: 4%), and Zambia (2001-02: 20% and 2007: 9%) (see Table 6.3 and
Figure 6.16).
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