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15in regular schools in 2004, which grades they were in, gender and age and how many whowere repeating classes, as well as information on the teachers and some on infrastructure.Available statistics allow us to make a comparison between 2001 and 2004.Statistics regarding primary education in BenguelaDistribution of students in primary school inBenguela 2001 and 20046thgrade5thgrade4thgrade3rdgrade2ndgrade1stgradeFemaleMaleTotalFemaleMaleTotalFemaleMaleTotalFemaleMaleTotalFemaleMaleTotalFemaleMaleTotal0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000Benguela 2001 Benguela 2004The numbers from 2001 in the above table comes from the 2004 EFA strategy (same as thenational numbers in the graph showed earlier in this report). The 2004 numbers are from theprovincial government and were given to the team when we visited them. From the graph wecan see that there are more students in grade 3 than in the national average, but then comes arather dramatic drop. The amount of students in grade 4 is less than half of the students ingrade 1. The gender balance is slightly better than on national level, jumping up and downbetween 51% and 58% boys. 28In another setting, it could make sense to take the number of students in grade 1 2001 and thenumber in grade 4 2004 and compare. Due to the general increase in access to education inAngola the last years, combined with the large number of students repeating classes, this willprobably give us quite wrong answers, so we have left that idea. In Benguela we also receivedstatistics on drop-outs, students who failed and students who passed.28 There is a deviating result in grade 4 in 2001 with near 60% girls which is either not correct or has some specialbackground we don’t know of.Educare Eva M. Johannessen