Of the Margans whose literacy was recorded, 80.4% could both read and write, 0% could read but not write, and 19.6% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 83.3% reading and writing against 76.9% 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.