Ratoath Parish through time | Historical Statistics on Learning & Language

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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	349	210
Able to read but not write	107	153
Unable to read or write	298	301

Data for 1851	Sex
Whether able to read & write	Male	Female
Able to read & write	308	206
Able to read but not write	134	128
Unable to read or write	219	201

Data for 1861	Sex
Whether able to read & write	Male	Female
Able to read & write	252	224
Able to read but not write	75	77
Unable to read or write	199	180

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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A University of Aberdeen project directed by Clive Lee systematically re-worked county-level occupation/industry data from all censuses 1841-1971 to the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification, distinguishing males and females. Lee calculated two alternative sets of data, Series A and Series B. Series A is for all individual Registration Counties and follows the nineteenth century censuses approach of grouping distributive workers with those involved in manufacturing the same items. Series B is for Administrative C...

ounties and is closely modeled on employment classifications used in the 1970s so sector 23 ('Distributive Trades') is much larger. Not all individual administrative county data are listed. Scottish counties were aggregated to the 1975-1996 regions and Welsh counties were grouped into 'Glamorgan and Monmouthshire' and 'North and West Wales'. As these are derived data, we hold Lee's data only for actual counties and nations already in our system.

Ratoath Parish : Literacy by Gender

Literacy by Gender