Education

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Schooling levels, 2017

No schooling (% of people age 20+)	17%
Matric (% of people age 20+)	19%
Higher education (% of people age 20+)	7%
Some exposure to school: i.e. dropped out before reaching matric	57%

Source: StatsSA 2011

% children aged 0 – 4 years using different childcare arrangements, 2017

Care arrangements	WC	EC	NC	FS	KZN	NW	GP	MP	LP
Grade R, Pre-School, Nursery School, Créche, Education centre	41	34	25	45	27	33	45	37	35
Day mother	5	3	11	3	2	1	8	3	6
At home with parent or guardian	44	55	59	43	57	58	38	54	51

Northern Cape has the highest rate of keeping their children at home with a day mother, parent or guardian.

Source StatsSA 2017

These results show that nearly half (47,6%) of children never read a book or drew (44,7%) with a parent or guardian.

Source: Statssa, 2019: General Household Survey, 2017

Population aged 20 years and older, by highest level of education and province, 2017

39% of Northern Cape population is not educational schooled.

Highest level of education	Thousands
Highest level of education	WC	EC	NC	FS	KZN	NW	GP	MP	LP	RSA
Diploma with less than Gr 12	13	5	*	6	11	4	30	8	7	87
National Certificate Gr 12	25	30	5	14	35	26	113	30	19	295
Diploma with Gr 12	174	108	20	49	173	72	464	117	94	1270
Higher Diploma NQF 7	152	76	8	26	139	20	296	27	31	775
Post higher diploma (Masters degree) NQF 9	85	36	*	11	51	5	179	19	11	400
Bachelor’s Degree NQF7	162	64	12	35	121	58	362	54	37	905
Honours degree/ Postgraduate Diploma NQF8	106	36	4	30	94	25	315	20	29	659
Doctoral Degrees	25	9	*	*	17	5	41	*	*	102
Other	26	7	*	*	12	*	98	14	*	163
Do not know	29	9	*	24	52	49	128	13	41	348
Unspecified	11	10	*	*	15	*	30	9	11	89
Total population aged 20 years and older	4388	3753	745	1781	6580	2393	9754	2617	3194	35205
Total population	6510	6499	1214	2867	11075	3856	14278	4444	5779	56522
% not educational schooled	33%	42%	39%	38%	41%	38%	32%	41%	45%	38

General Household Survey, 2017