<Dd> Also called the "effective literacy rate"; the total percentage of the population of an area at a particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding . Here the denominator is the population aged seven years or more . </Dd> <Dd> Effective literacy rate = number of literate persons aged 7 or above population aged 7 and above × 100 (\ displaystyle (\ text (Effective literacy rate)) = (\ dfrac (\ text (number of literate persons aged 7 or above)) (\ text (population aged 7 and above))) \ times 100) </Dd> <Dt> Crude literacy rate </Dt> <Dd> The total percentage of the people of an area at a particular time who can read and write with understanding, taking the total population of the area (including below seven years of age) as the denominator . </Dd>

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