Tabulación de las encuestas aplicadas a los Colectores(as) de las

When comparing the dropout rates between the three school status (Government, Mission and Private), the Government schools appear to have higher dropout rates than both Mission and Private schools, particularly in Year 2, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12. The Mission schools have higher dropout rates in Year 13 than Government and Private schools as shown by Table 3.3. The Private schools have higher dropout rates in Year 6 and Year 7 compare to those of both Government and Mission schools of the same school year levels. Overall, during 1995 until 2006 many students were more likely to drop out of Government schools than in Mission and Private schools. This is evidently shown by Figure 3.9 to Figure 3.14.

There are some missing dropout rates for both Year 11 and Year 12 school year levels for the Private schools category in Table 3.3. This is due to the fact that there are only two Private secondary schools exist in Samoa and both of them do not have Year 11 but do have Year 12 school year level. Students who successfully complete Year 10 automatically proceed to Year 12 the following year.

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Table 3.3: School Year Level Median Dropout Rates of all schools by School Status

Note: (i) For each cell, the number at the top is the median and the numbers at the bottom inside the brackets are the Lower Quartile (Q1) and the Upper Quartile (Q3), for all calendar years (from 1995 to 2006).

(ii) The two missing informations are due to only 2 Private schools and both do not have Yr 11.

Figure 3.9: Comparing Year 2 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

Note: The sharp peak is due to a single observation with a higher dropout rate.

Figure 3.9 shows that the dropout rate over the years across all three school status is improving for some calendar years for some school status. The dropout rate for

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Private schools is very high in 2002. This is because it is based on only one observation (1 school). Both Government and Mission schools, especially the Government, have higher dropout rates than the Private schools.

Figure 3.10: Comparing Year 9 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

Note: The sharp peak is due to a single observation.

Figure 3.11: Comparing Year 10 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

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In Figure 3.10, higher dropout rates for Government schools were found in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000. All of these years the dropout rates were based on single observations (1 school only for each year). The Year 10 dropout rate as shown by Figure 3.11 has been improved over the years across all three school status, except for some years, significant changes have been found in the Private schools. Clearly, the dropout rates are higher in Government schools than in both Mission (even though dropout rates for Mission are higher than Private schools) and Private schools. The big changes for Private schools occurred in 2000 to 2001, and 2005 to 2006 whereby the dropout rates suddenly jumped up, because they were only based on single observations (in 2000 to 2001) and dual observations (in 2005 to 2006).

Figure 3.12: Comparing Year 11 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

The Year 11 dropout rates seemed stable and very low from 1995 to 2001 for Government schools but suddenly ballooned to 12.73 in 2002 and constantly stabilised in the following years. From 2002 to 2006 dropout rates for Government schools were still much higher than any other school status in the country. Like the Government schools, as displayed by Figure 3.12, a much stable dropout rate condition was seen in 1995 to 2000 for Mission schools, but then there was this dropout rate hump found in 2001 before it became stabled again in the following years. Despite all these variations of the dropout rates in the beginning of the 21st century, the fact still remains that more students are leaving schools in the Government status than in both the Mission and Private schools.

Figure 3.13 shows huge improvement on the dropout rates for Government schools in Year 12 but still remain high as opposed to those of Mission and Private schools.

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Figure 3.13: Comparing Year 12 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

Figure 3.14: Comparing Year 13 Level Dropout Rates by School Status, 1995 - 2006

Much attention was given to the dropout rate in the Government schools as mentioned earlier in all the other school year levels, but at the Year 13 level the dropout crisis seems to be problematic for Mission schools as shown by Figure 3.14. Over the years the problem of students quiting schools has been improved across all the three school

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status, with the Mission schools are considered to have higher dropout rates than both the Government and Private schools. For Mission schools, some significant dropout rates were discovered in the year 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2006 but they are not as bad as in the late 90’s. Similarly, the Government schools were not as bad either in the early 21st century as it was in the late 90’s. One reason that could account for higher dropout rates in the late 90’s is that there were only fewer secondary schools then than now.

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Chapter 4

Data Analysis and Methodology

This chapter is specifically discussing and talking about statistical theories, methodologies and approaches used to analyse the given datasets as described in chapter 3 for this study. This chapter was based on notes and informations from Agresti (2002), Hosmer & Lemeshow (2000) and McCullagh & Nelder (1989).