<P> The National Literacy Mission defines literacy as acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one's day - to - day life . The achievement of functional literacy implies (i) self - reliance in 3 R's, (ii) awareness of the causes of deprivation and the ability to move towards amelioration of their condition by participating in the process of development, (iii) acquiring skills to improve economic status and general well being, and (iv) imbibing values such as national integration, conservation of environment, women's equality, observance of small family norms . </P> <P> The working definition of literacy in the Indian census since 1991 is as follows: </P> <Dl> <Dt> Literacy rate </Dt> <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> <Dd> Crude literacy rate = number of literate persons total population × 100 (\ displaystyle (\ text (Crude literacy rate)) = (\ dfrac (\ text (number of literate persons)) (\ text (total population))) \ times 100) </Dd> </Dl> <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>

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