Publication at Faculty of Science |
2012
Abstract
The aim of this article is to show how life tables can be used to analyse the flow of students through secondary education. The life table treats new enrolments as births, years spent at school as an individual's age and withdrawals and graduation as deaths.
In the article life tables are constructed using the cohort approach. The most important output of the life tables - the expected number of future years of school attendance - is compared among different types of secondary schools in the time period of school years 1999/2000-2007/2008.