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Kothari, Brij; Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata – International Review of Education, 2010
This paper takes a close look at India's literacy rate by exploring whether the officially "literate" can read and at what level. In a large sample, aged 7+, drawn from four Hindi-speaking states, two methods were used to measure literacy. One was the standard Census Method (CM) which relies on self-reporting and the other was a Reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), Knowledge Level, Literacy