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The secondary school net attendance rate is presentedin Table ED.5 17 . Lower attendance rates are registered atthe start of secondary education which is not compulsoryin Serbia. More dramatic than in primary school(where only one percent of children are not attendingschool at all) is the fact that 10 percent of children ofsecondary school age are not attending secondary school— 2 percent are attending primary school instead ofsecondary school, while the remaining 8 percent are notattending school at all.Table ED.5: Secondary school attendance, Serbia, 2010Percentage of children of secondary school age attending secondary school or higher(adjusted net attendance ratio) and percentage of children attending primary schoolNetattendanceratio(adjusted) 1Male Female TotalPercentattendingprimaryschoolNumber ofchildrenNetattendanceratio(adjusted) 1PercentattendingprimaryschoolNumber ofchildrenNetattendanceratio(adjusted) 1PercentattendingprimaryschoolNumber ofchildrenRegionBelgrade 90.5 5.3 79 95.9 .6 90 93.4 2.8 169Vojvodina 84.8 .6 105 91.3 1.9 122 88.3 1.3 228Sumadija and Western Serbia 87.9 1.4 123 91.2 2.8 140 89.7 2.2 263Southern and Eastern Serbia 90.1 1.6 131 83.6 3.3 111 87.1 2.4 242AreaUrban 90.6 2.6 244 94.7 2.0 247 92.7 2.3 491Rural 85.3 1.2 195 85.4 2.6 216 85.3 1.9 410Reached age in year 201015 90.6 6.1 98 91.0 8.0 130 90.8 7.2 22816 94.0 2.7 92 94.1 .0 98 94.1 1.3 19017 91.0 .0 139 90.9 .0 109 91.0 .0 24818 78.0 .3 111 86.2 .0 125 82.3 .1 236Mother’s educationPrimary 73.6 7.0 70 74.3 12.5 63 73.9 9.6 133Secondary 98.7 1.1 160 98.6 .1 179 98.7 .6 339Higher 97.8 2.2 80 (100.0) (0.0) 52 98.7 1.3 132Mother not in household (*) (*) 27 78.9 .6 54 83.7 .4 81Wealth index quintilePoorest 61.7 6.0 87 59.2 10.5 63 60.6 7.9 151Second (94.7) (0.0) 66 88.9 .0 88 91.4 .0 153Middle 95.0 .0 86 98.6 .1 112 97.0 .1 197Fourth 95.8 .0 112 96.0 .0 97 95.9 .0 209Richest 93.6 4.0 88 96.5 3.5 103 95.2 3.8 191Total 88.3 2.0 439 90.3 2.3 463 89.3 2.1 9011MICS indicator 7.5( ) Figures that are based on 25–49 unweighted cases(*) Figures that are based on less than 25 unweighted cases17Ratios presented in this table are “adjusted” since they include not only secondary school attendance, but also attendance at higher levels in the numerator.MONITORING THE SITUATION OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN 159