Of the Kindlans whose literacy was recorded, 64.2% could both read and write, 17% could read but not write, and 18.9% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 72.7% reading and writing against 58.1% 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.