Fewer children continue their education at the secondary level. Overall, the secondary school NAR is 56.3 percent according to the DHS, but attendance rates are much higher in urban areas and among the richest households (see the graph below). In the richest 20 percent of all households, 79.9 percent of all children of secondary school age are in secondary school. In urban areas of Bolivia, the secondary school NAR is 67.9 percent. The lowest attendance rate, 27.9 percent, is observed among the poorest 20 percent of all households. In other words, more than seven out of ten children from the poorest households do not attend secondary school. In rural areas the secondary NAR is 37.2 percent.
Secondary school net attendance rate, Bolivia 2003/04
Data source: Bolivia 2003/04 DHS.
In Bolivia overall, there is gender parity at the secondary level of education. The gender parity index (GPI), the ratio of the female to the male NAR, is 0.98, as shown in the following table. In primary school, gender parity exists regardless of the area of residence and the level of household wealth, but this is not the case at the secondary level of education. In rural areas and among the poorest households, boys are much more likely to attend secondary school than boys. The GPI in rural areas is 0.81 and among the poorest 20 percent of all households it is as low as 0.66, which means that for every three boys only two girls are in secondary school. To reach the Millennium Development Goal of gender parity at all levels of education, it is necessary to bring more girls from poor and rural households into school.
Secondary school net attendance rate, Bolivia 2003/04
| Total NAR (%) | Male NAR (%) | Female NAR (%) | Difference male- female | GPI female/ male | |
| Urban | 67.9 | 67.0 | 68.7 | -1.7 | 1.03 |
| Rural | 37.2 | 41.1 | 33.1 | 8.0 | 0.81 |
| Richest 20% | 79.9 | 80.6 | 79.3 | 1.3 | 0.98 |
| Poorest 20% | 27.9 | 33.4 | 22.0 | 11.4 | 0.66 |
| Total | 56.3 | 56.8 | 55.9 | 1.0 | 0.98 |
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