LITERACY

LITERACY

Literacy and education are generalty taken as indica­tors of social development. The spread of literacy is also associated with the traits of industrialisation, urbanisation, better communication, increased commerce, and modernaisation. Improved literacy levels help in the growth of awareness and social skills and in the improvement of economic conditions. Information on literacy is obtained from every individual in the census.

There is a wide variation over the world in the literacy rates which denote the percentage of people in the age group 15 years and above who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement in their everyday life,