Historical regional data on literacy rates in 1911 Italy, by gender (by Brian A'Hearn and Carlo Ciccarelli)

Italy, June 1911, Population Census Data. Population and literacy rates by gender at various level of geographical disaggregation corresponding to various territorial administrative units (16 Regions, 69 Provinces, 276 Disctricts) . The data allow to illustrate geographic patterns in literacy by gender and sex ratios.

Summary statistics, maps and preliminary findings are reported in A'Hearn, B. and Ciccarelli, C. (2021), "Literacy in the Italian census of 1911: disaggregating the data" , Rivista di Storia Economica, forthcoming. Brian A’Hearn – Pembroke College, University of Oxford; Carlo Ciccarelli – Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome, Tor Vergata .

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