TABLE L1. SIMPLE LITERACY OF THE HOUSEHOLD POPULATION 10-64 YEARS OLD BY SEX, BY REGION, URBAN-RURAL: NOVEMBER 1994 ================================================================================================================================= BOTH SEXES MALE FEMALE REGION AND NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT AREA CLASSICATION (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHILIPPINES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,588 95.02 22,934 94.60 22,654 95.46 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,518 97.33 11,516 97.13 12,002 97.52 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,070 92.69 11,418 92.17 10,652 93.25 NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION . . . . . . . . 6,512 99.15 3,109 99.10 3,403 99.20 CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION. . . . 813 91.26 436 91.80 377 90.65 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 97.01 136 97.05 126 96.97 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 88.76 301 89.61 250 87.76 REGION I - ILOCOS . . . . . . . . . . . 2,563 97.33 1,315 97.07 1,248 97.60 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014 98.35 497 97.91 518 98.78 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,548 96.67 818 96.58 730 96.77 REGION II - CAGAYAN . . . . . . . . . . 1,808 94.70 967 94.67 841 94.72 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 96.22 229 96.53 223 95.90 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,356 94.20 738 94.11 618 94.31 REGION III - CENTRAL LUZON . . . . . . 4,727 97.36 2,387 97.08 2,340 97.66 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,790 97.95 1,391 97.98 1,400 97.91 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,937 96.54 996 95.84 941 97.29 REGION IV - SOUTHERN TAGALOG. . . . . . 6,297 97.52 3,195 97.53 3,102 97.50 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,330 98.09 1,639 98.18 1,691 98.01 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,967 96.88 1,556 96.86 1,411 96.90 REGION V - BICOL. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,159 96.08 1,607 95.65 1,553 96.53 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031 97.45 508 97.30 522 97.60 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,129 95.43 1,098 94.90 1,030 96.00 REGION VI - WESTERN VISAYAS . . . . . . 4,003 93.62 2,015 92.12 1,987 95.19 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,578 95.82 785 94.88 794 96.78 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,424 92.23 1,231 90.44 1,194 94.16 REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS. . . . . . 3,351 94.89 1,670 94.67 1,681 95.11 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 96.57 788 96.59 792 96.55 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,771 93.44 882 93.03 888 93.85 REGION VIII - EASTERN VISAYAS . . . . . 2,304 92.56 1,179 90.35 1,125 94.99 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 95.03 344 93.96 365 96.06 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,595 91.50 835 88.94 759 94.49 REGION IX - WESTERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 1,764 90.69 869 90.47 895 90.90 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 93.96 306 93.05 345 94.78 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,113 88.88 564 89.13 550 88.62 REGION X - NORTHERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 2,730 95.64 1,376 94.67 1,354 96.64 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260 97.34 637 96.78 623 97.92 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,470 94.23 739 92.93 731 95.58 REGION XI - SOUTHERN MINDANAO . . . . . 3,177 92.87 1,602 92.47 1,575 93.29 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,565 95.65 768 95.51 797 95.78 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,613 90.33 835 89.84 778 90.86 REGION XII - CENTRAL MINDANAO . . . . . 1,389 91.71 698 90.91 691 92.52 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 94.38 247 93.40 258 95.34 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884 90.25 451 89.61 433 90.92 AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MUSLIM MINDANAO. . 990 73.82 508 75.88 482 71.77 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 82.86 134 83.65 144 82.14 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 70.81 374 73.43 338 68.12 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: NSO-DECS 1994 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media (FLEMMS)