PakistanSindh2019MICSLiteracyWomen
Literacy measures the proportion of individuals aged 15-49 who attended secondary or higher education or who can read a short simple statement about everyday life. It broadly follows the definition of SDG indicator 4.6.1 Proportion of population in a given age group achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy and numeracy skills.
Data Source: MICS
The following data are considered for this analysis:
• Individuals: Women ages 15 - 49 (WM- Individual Women’s Survey)
The standard LNOB analysis for Literacy among women includes the following circumstances:
• Wealth of the household: top 60 or bottom 40 per cent of the household wealth distribution
• Residence: urban or rural
• Age group: 15-24, 25-34 or 35-49
Analysis including disability: interviewed women and men aged 18-49, as applicable to this indicator, with their own survey weights. These Pakistan MICS6 surveys provide a binary functional-difficulty variable (no difficulty / has difficulty), rather than the six item-level answers. Adults with no disability answer are excluded. Disability prevalence is below the 5% minimum group in these surveys, so a tree may not split by disability. Results remain published with the existing minimum group rule.
