TABLE L1S. SIMPLE LITERACY OF THE HOUSEHOLD POPULATION 10 YEARS OLD AND OVER BY SEX, BY REGION, URBAN-RURAL: NOVEMBER 1994 ============================================================================================================================= BOTH SEXES MALE FEMALE REGION AND NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT AREA CLASSIFICATION (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHILIPPINES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,301 93.87 23,767 93.74 23,534 93.99 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,391 96.52 11,928 96.55 12,463 96.48 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,910 91.20 11,838 91.07 11,072 91.34 NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION . . . . . . . . 6,706 98.83 3,194 98.88 3,513 98.78 CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION. . . . 833 88.80 448 89.93 385 87.52 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 96.01 140 96.74 131 95.23 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 85.70 308 87.14 254 84.02 REGION I - ILOCOS . . . . . . . . . . . 2,720 95.47 1,381 96.11 1,338 94.81 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,072 96.83 522 97.04 551 96.63 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,647 94.60 860 95.55 788 93.58 REGION II - CAGAYAN . . . . . . . . . . 1,877 93.29 1,002 93.70 875 92.83 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 95.45 240 96.06 234 94.84 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,402 92.58 762 92.97 640 92.11 REGION III - CENTRAL LUZON . . . . . . 4,917 96.27 2,485 96.48 2,432 96.07 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,909 97.10 1,453 97.54 1,456 96.65 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,009 95.11 1,032 95.01 977 95.21 REGION IV - SOUTHERN TAGALOG. . . . . . 6,535 96.44 3,310 96.84 3,225 96.03 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,451 97.39 1,695 97.73 1,756 97.06 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,085 95.40 1,616 95.92 1,469 94.83 REGION V - BICOL. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,302 94.87 1,680 94.78 1,622 94.97 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,081 96.40 534 96.40 547 96.41 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,221 94.15 1,146 94.05 1,075 94.25 REGION VI - WESTERN VISAYAS . . . . . . 4,173 91.88 2,095 90.76 2,078 93.04 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,653 94.30 818 93.76 835 94.83 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,520 90.36 1,277 88.93 1,243 91.87 REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS. . . . . . 3,501 93.06 1,745 93.36 1,756 92.77 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,652 95.47 822 95.89 831 95.05 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,849 91.02 924 91.22 925 90.81 REGION VIII - EASTERN VISAYAS . . . . . 2,412 90.86 1,231 89.15 1,181 92.71 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 93.38 361 92.77 384 93.96 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,666 89.77 870 87.73 797 92.12 REGION IX - WESTERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 1,811 89.65 891 89.14 920 90.14 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 93.22 315 92.12 353 94.22 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,142 87.68 576 87.59 567 87.77 REGION X - NORTHERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 2,818 94.63 1,423 93.77 1,395 95.53 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,299 96.36 656 95.82 643 96.93 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,520 93.20 767 92.08 753 94.38 REGION XI - SOUTHERN MINDANAO . . . . . 3,268 92.02 1,648 91.62 1,619 92.43 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,612 94.90 791 94.77 822 95.03 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,655 89.38 857 88.89 798 89.90 REGION XII - CENTRAL MINDANAO . . . . . 1,423 90.81 716 90.27 708 91.35 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 93.38 252 92.97 264 93.79 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907 89.40 463 88.87 444 89.96 AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MUSLIM MINDANAO. . 1,005 73.46 518 75.55 487 71.36 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 82.37 135 82.98 144 81.80 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 70.52 382 73.22 343 67.72 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: NSO-DECS 1994 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media (FLEMMS)