Of the Blessings whose literacy was recorded, 73.6% could both read and write, 4.4% could read but not write, and 22% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 75.6% reading and writing against 71.7% of women. 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.