 | 1994 - 340 pages
...year, who die before reaching one year of age. /b Proportion of the population over the age of fifteen who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. Illiteracy rate is for 1960 except for the following: Indonesia and India (1961); Malaysia (1970);... | |
 | 1996 - 268 pages
...enrollment records. Adult illiteracy is defined here as the proportion of the population fifteen years and older who cannot, with understanding, read and...a short, simple statement on their everyday life. This is only one of three widely accepted definitions, and its application is subject to qualifiers... | |
 | 1997 - 286 pages
...national authorities. Adult illiteracy is defined as the proportion of the population age 15 years and older who cannot, with understanding, read and...a short, simple statement on their everyday life. This is only one of three widely accepted definitions, and its application is subject to qualifiers... | |
 | Judy L. Baker - 1997 - 234 pages
...The Adult Illiteracy Rate is here defined as the proportion of the population over the age of fifteen who cannot with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. This is only one of three widely accepted definitions, and its application is subject to qualifiers... | |
 | Pierre-Richard Agénor - 2000 - 752 pages
...level of education shown. 2/ The adult illiteracy rate is the proportion of adults aged 15 and above who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. 160 -1 140 Zimbabwe A Panama g 0 Pfm Brazil Indonesia I 120 100 80 Tunisia* Colombia ^ Zambia Honduras^... | |
 | Laura M. Ahearn - 2001 - 316 pages
...World Bank reads: "Adult illiteracy is defined here as the proportion of the population fifteen years and older who cannot, with understanding, read and...a short, simple statement on their everyday life" (World Bank 1996:229). So ambiguous is the definition, however, that UNESCO has changed it several... | |
 | Ruwan Jayasuriya, Quentin Wodon - 2003 - 98 pages
...similar manner. Adult illiteracy measures the percentage of the population aged 15 years and above who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. The second group of variables consists of institutional variables and data on urbanization. The institutional... | |
 | Patrick Honohan - 2003 - 244 pages
...electrical machinery. (United Nations COMTRADE database) llliteracy, female the percentage of females age 15 and older who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life, (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) llliteracy,... | |
 | Bonnie L. Green, Matthew J. Friedman, Joop de Jong, Terence M. Keane, Susan D. Solomon, John A. Fairbank, Brigid Donelan, Ellen Frey-Wouters - 2003 - 416 pages
...are more likely to be available for industrialized countries. Illiteracy refers to adults 15 years and older who "cannot with understanding read and write a short, simple sentence about their everyday life" (World Bank, 1998). Colin Power, UNESCO Assistant Secretary-General,... | |
 | Pierre-Richard Agénor - 2004 - 794 pages
...the level of education shown. The adult illiteracy rate is the proportion of adults aged 15 and above who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. Source: World Bank. Figure 10.6 shows scatter diagrams relating the rate of growth of real income per capita... | |
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Adult illiteracy is defined here as the proportion of the population over the age of fifteen who cannot, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. 
