CHILDREN in Namibia

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The Seven Dimensions of Risk: Understanding why children are not at school or at risk of dropping out. UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics developed the global initiative on out-of-school children and set five dimensions for measuring the number of children who are out of school as part of the global initiative on OOSC children. Namibia has added two dimensions in its country report in order to include learners in secondary phase. These dimensions are: • Dimension 1 – Children of pre–primary age who are not in pre–primary or primary school; • Dimension 2 – Children of primary age who are not in pre–primary, primary, or secondary school; • Dimension 3 – Children of lower secondary age who are not in primary or secondary school; • Dimension 4 – Children in primary school at risk of dropping out before completing primary school; • Dimension 5 – Children in lower secondary school at risk of dropping out before completing that phase; • Dimension 6 – Children of senior secondary age who are not in primary or secondary school; • Dimension 7 – Children in senior secondary school who are at risk of dropping out. The seven dimensions of risk can be shown as follows: Out–of–school In school Dimension 1 Not in primary school Pre–primary age children Attended but dropped out of school Dimension 2 Will enter late Primary age children Dimension 4 At risk of dropping out of primary school Will never enter Attended but dropped out of school Dimension 3 Will enter late Will never enter Junior secondary age children Dimension 5 At risk of dropping out of lower secondary school Attended but dropped out of school Dimension 6 Will enter late Senior secondary age children Dimension 7 At risk of dropping out of senior secondary school Will never enter Primary school learners Junior secondary school learners Senior secondary school learners 5
Below are the numbers which show us exactly how many children are out of school or at risk of dropping out of school in Namibia. The numbers are given according to the dimension of risk, that is to say, depending on the age of the children. Not in school Number of out-of-school children 13 082 36 084 25 308 29 294 Dimensions of risk Dimension 1 Pre–primary aged not in school (Age 6) % Excluded amongst age reference population At risk of dropping out Dimension 2 Primary aged not in school (Age 7–13) Dimension 3 Junior secondary aged not in school (Age 14–16) Dimension 6 Senior secondary aged not in school (Age 17–19) 28 11 18 34 Number of out-of-school children 41 900 34 500 22 800 Dimensions of risk Dimension 4 In primary school and at risk of dropping out before completing primary education Dimension 5 In junior secondary and at risk of dropping out before completing junior secondary Dimension 7 In senior secondary and at risk of dropping out before completing senior secondary As we can see, there were 103 768 children out of school in Namibia in 2011 in pre-primary, primary and secondary phases. An additional 99 200 were at risk of dropping out. % Excluded amongst age reference population 13 30 65 6
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