The authors present a new approach to evaluating the level of effective literacy in a region or country, one that takes into account the presence in a household of a literate person. They characterize the approach and give an empirical illustration of its use. They designed the new measures of literacy because traditional measures of the literacy rate (R) ignore how the presence of literate person in the household affects literacy. They contend that...
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1998/10/31
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS1997
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On measuring literacy
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literate person
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Basu, Kaushik; Foster, James E..
On measuring literacy (English). Policy, Research working paper|no. WPS 1997 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/838991468750545024