Question

TABLE 1.5 EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT OF RURAL
POPULATION OF UTTAR PRADESH
Female
Category
Male
Literacy rate for rural population
76%
Literacy rate for rural children in age group 10-14 years 90%
Percentage of rural children aged 10-14 attending school 85%
54%
87%
82%
(a) The literacy rate for all age groups, including young and old, is for rural
males and for rural females. However, it is not just that these many
adults could not attend school but that there are — who are currently not in
school.
(b) It is clear from the table that % of rural girls and __% of rural boys are
not attending school. Therefore, illiteracy among children in the age group 10-
14 is as high as -% for rural females and % for rural males.
(c) This high level of illiteracy among
age group, even after more than
68 years of our independence, is most disturbing. In many other states als
we are nowhere near realisation of the constitutional goal of free and compulsor
education for all children up to the age of 14, which was expected to be achieve
by 1960.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Literacy rates are computed by dividing the number of people aged 15–24 years who are literate by the total population in the same age group, the result is then multiplied by 100. ... The literacy rate for this analysis is simply the complement of the illiteracy rate.