Of the Battles whose literacy was recorded, 71.9% could both read and write, 2.5% could read but not write, and 25.6% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 74.5% reading and writing against 69.3% of men. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.