Data instruments used to estimate literacy, 2016

This figure illustrates the type of sources that countries use to estimate literacy rates. The three categories include censuses (e.g. national population censuses),surveys (e.g. Demographic and Health Surveys), and indirect inference (e.g. extrapolation from educational attainment data).

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Data instruments used to estimate literacy

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