Table 3.7 Age wise Distribution of Sample Household Members Number of persons Age Male Female Total Less than 1 4(0.81) 5(1.01) 9(1.83) 1 – 14 57(11.56) 52(10.55) 109(22.11) 15 – 49 122(24.75) 119(24.14) 241(48.88) 50 – 59 25(5.07) 29(5.88) 54(10.95) 60 and above 33(6.69) 47(9.53) 80(16.23) Total 241(48.88) 252(51.12) 493(100.00) Note: Percentage to total population is given in brackets 3.2.3 Literacy and education status Out of the total number of 493 persons from the sample farmer households in Ramankari village 53 persons are found to be illiterate and the rate of literacy is estimated as 89.25 percent. There are only 8 adult illiterates and effective literacy rate among the members of sample households is as high as 98.18 percent. It is to be noted that among the medium and large farmer households all persons above 7 years old are literate. Taking all the four categories of households together it is observed that 35.09 percent of the members had successfully completed their high school studies and 8.52 percent of them are graduates. Compared to the entire village population, education status of farmer household members is much better. In spite of it the percentage of persons from marginal households who have education qualifications equal to SSLC or above which is found to be 29.24 percent is substantially lower than those of small, medium and large farmer households estimated respectively as 36.42 percent, 37.35 percent and 43.94 percent. Education status of sample household members is given in table 3.8.
