Sentence examples for likely to be literate from inspiring English sources

For example, in India, a disparity in birth rates could already be observed between the impoverished northern states and more developed southern regions like Kerala, where women were more likely to be literate and educated, and their offspring more likely to be healthy.

Sick brothers were also less likely to be literate, to have ever been married, and to have reported an occupation.

In places with no female pradhan, boys are 6percentt more likely to attend school and 4percentt more likely to be literate.

In developing regions such as South Asia, sub-Saharan and north Africa and the Middle East, men are still much more likely to be literate than women.

Compared to Christians, Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa have fewer years of education, are less likely to be literate in any language, and their children are less likely to be in school.

This is the way with most documents – the male diaries and letters are considerably better preserved than women's and larger in number because for a long time men were more likely to be literate than women.

This is particularly true of rural women, who accounted for 97 percent of microfinance loans in India in 2011 according to the data center MixMarket, but are less likely than men to be literate or to have the same skills and experience to earn as much.

Decades of civil war have left South Sudan one of the poorest places on Earth, where a woman is more likely to die in childbirth than to be literate.

Controls were far more likely to have a job at baseline than cases and to be literate, except in the Philippines.

He said the first batch of potential claimants would be people recently made unemployed, who were likely to be computer literate, which would also make things easier for staff.

There is considerable evidence that in the poorer rural and urban-periphery communities of many countries no more than a quarter of children completing primary school are likely to be functionally literate.