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Literacy by Gender

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Data for 1841	Sex
Whether able to read & write	Male	Female
Able to read & write	8,423	4,324
Able to read but not write	3,308	4,785
Unable to read or write	8,073	11,283

Data for 1851	Sex
Whether able to read & write	Male	Female
Able to read & write	6,746	4,501
Able to read but not write	2,432	3,727
Unable to read or write	5,952	8,451

Data for 1861	Sex
Whether able to read & write	Male	Female
Able to read & write	5,810	4,390
Able to read but not write	1,576	2,429
Unable to read or write	3,271	4,624

Date	Source
1841	1841 Census of Ireland, Report, Table 1 , 'General table'
1851	1851 Census of Ireland, General, Table 1 , 'General Table.'
1861	1861 Census of Ireland, General, Table 1 , 'Showing by baronies, parishes, and towns, the area, population, number of houses and families, occupations, religious profusions, and education'

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nCube definition

The 1939 National Registration tabulated age and gender structure using a greatly simplified nine-way classification of ages. The introduction to the report states that this was to aid the enumerators who were doing much of the analysis before sending the completed forms to the Registrar General. Again to simplify the forms, people were asked to state their year of birth rather than their age. The fractions in the age bands occurred because "In consequence of these procedure restrictions, the number of groups ident...

ified ... is limited to nine in respect of each sex and being calendar year of birth groups, they do not correspond with integral years of age owing to the fact that the enumeration took place at the end of the third quarter of 1939."

The data are for the civilian population only. At this date, the armed services were almost all male, and under 45. An estimated 1,010,000 were in the services in Great Britain, of whom 900,000 were in England and Wales.

Middlethird Barony : Literacy by Gender

Literacy by Gender