Of the Padians whose literacy was recorded, 76.8% could both read and write, 4.2% could read but not write, and 18.9% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 79.6% reading and writing against 73.2% 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.