However when tested, basic literacy and functional literacy percentages plunged to 37.8 per cent, with 31.3 per cent for males and 16.3 per cent for females.
Using a regression analysis of the World Bank data on 250 countries, physician density was reported to be influenced by GDP, female literacy, the percentage of female population aged over 60 years, and female life expectancy [ 10].
The following criteria was collected by two reviewers (JKM and LL): author/year, study design, disease of focus, sample ascertainment, assessment of health literacy (measure), percentage of population who had limited/low/marginal health literacy, outcome measures, notable findings (that were health-literacy specific) and the study quality score.
The independent variables include: poverty rate, population density, literacy rate, the percentage of nonagricultural employment, the percent of households with electricity, distance to the district hospital, ethnicity (i.e., Tai-Kadai vs. other), and religion (i.e., Buddhist vs. other).
It improved their chances of mastering second-year literacy by 9.9 percentage points.
I also find that intra- and inter-cohort variation in childhood exposure to the refugee crisis reduced height in early adulthood by 1.8 cm (1.2%), schooling by 0.2 years (7.1%) and literacy by 7 percentage points (8.6%).
For Literacy scores, the percentage differences in wages range from about 4% (Italy) to about 14% (England/N. Ireland).
Adult literacy rate - Percentage of persons aged 15 and over who can read and write.
Variations in adult literacy rate and percentage of minority ethnic were high.
Life expectancy at birth - The number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing for the Adult literacy rate - Percentage of persons aged 15 and over who can read and write.
The measure of female adult literacy reflected the percentage of adult women (>19 years old) in each community or district who stated they could "read and write [a] letter".
