Education
With reference to the 11 085 school-going girls between the ages of 10 and 19 who gave birth in public facilities in 2021:
How many of these learners have returned to school in 2022?
The number of school-going girls that were quoted as pregnant in 2021 (11085) in the preamble of the question was not supplied by the WCED and therefore we are unable to answer the question. The Provincial Department of Health is the custodian of medical records and provides the figures.
The WCED receives reports on the number of learners who fell pregnant a year in arrears, via the Annual School Survey. Schools report the number of learner pregnancies for the previous year in the Annual School Survey (e.g. for the 2018 ASS, a school will report on pregnancies that happened during the 2017 academic year).
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Learners fell pregnant in 2017 (2018 ASS) |
2 208 |
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Learners fell pregnant in 2018 (2019 ASS) |
2 159 |
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Learners fell pregnant in 2019 (2020 ASS) |
2 283 |
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Learners fell pregnant in 2020 (2021 ASS) |
1 828 |
