Education
CARNARVON
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
NORTHERN CAPE
% 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 |
|||||||||
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