Of the Sleiths whose literacy was recorded, 77.2% could both read and write, 3.8% could read but not write, and 19% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 78.9% reading and writing against 75.6% 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.