Spatial analysis of population enrollment in pre-university education in Iraq

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   The number of people not enrolled in pre-university education In Iraq is (374,106) individuals all considered outside the school.
On the basis of the net enrollment rate, there is a spatial   variation according to the governorates and for all the three elementary, secondary and preparatory levels of education.  At the level of Iraq it was (8.5, 48.5, 69.7%) respectively. The highest rate of non-enrolled in the primary stage is the governorate of Muthanna with a rate of (16.1%) and the lowest is in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad at a rate of (5%). In the secondary stage, the governorate of Muthanna is also the highest in Iraq, with (60%) of individuals of the age group and the lowest in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah at a rate of (24.8%).
As for the high secondary stage which is the preparatory stage, the governorate of Maysan has the highest rate of non-enrolled (81.2%), while the rate was (43.4%) in the governorate of Sulaymaniyah,  the least governorate  in the non-enrolled in the preparatory stage.
  The cluster analysis according to the kinship matrix showed the similarities and differences between the governorates and the derived distances between them. The similarity was at its highest with the lowest value of the kinship coefficient and the smallest distance between the governorates of Diyala and Anbar, then the governorates of Kirkuk and Najaf, and the farthest governorates from each other were the governorates of Dohuk and Sulaymaniya

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