Of the Shevlins whose literacy was recorded, 72.3% could both read and write, 5.5% could read but not write, and 22.2% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 74.2% reading and writing against 70.3% 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.