TABLE L5. FUNCTIONAL LITERACY OF THE HOUSEHOLD POPULATION 10 - 64 YEARS OLD BY SEX AND REGION: URBAN-RURAL: NOVEMBER 1994 =============================================================================================================================================== BOTH SEXES MALE FEMALE REGION AND NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT AREA CLASSIFICATION (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) (IN 1,000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHILIPPINES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,198 83.79 19,816 81.73 20,383 85.89 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,357 88.39 10,305 86.92 11,052 89.80 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,841 79.12 9,510 76.77 9,331 81.68 NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION . . . . . . . . 6,069 92.41 2,879 91.75 3,190 93.00 CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION. . . . 700 78.55 365 76.83 335 80.52 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 86.96 118 84.57 117 89.51 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 74.90 247 73.61 218 76.42 REGION I - ILOCOS . . . . . . . . . . . 2,276 86.42 1,160 85.63 1,116 87.26 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921 89.32 450 88.77 471 89.86 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,355 84.56 710 83.76 645 85.46 REGION II - CAGAYAN . . . . . . . . . . 1,654 86.59 885 86.56 769 86.63 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 89.87 214 90.13 209 89.60 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,231 85.52 671 85.48 560 85.58 REGION III - CENTRAL LUZON . . . . . . 4,237 87.28 2,117 86.11 2,121 88.48 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,549 89.47 1,257 88.57 1,292 90.36 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,688 84.17 860 82.74 829 85.70 REGION IV - SOUTHERN TAGALOG. . . . . . 5,683 88.01 2,826 86.28 2,857 89.79 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,060 90.14 1,484 88.88 1,576 91.35 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,623 85.65 1,342 83.57 1,280 87.94 REGION V - BICOL. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,724 82.83 1,365 81.25 1,359 84.48 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 86.85 447 85.54 472 88.14 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,805 80.92 918 79.31 887 82.65 REGION VI - WESTERN VISAYAS . . . . . . 3,461 80.94 1,690 77.26 1,771 84.80 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,397 84.79 684 82.66 713 86.93 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,064 78.53 1,007 73.98 1,058 83.43 REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS. . . . . . 2,855 80.85 1,386 78.53 1,470 83.17 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,375 84.03 671 82.19 705 85.86 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,480 78.10 715 75.38 765 80.83 REGION VIII - EASTERN VISAYAS . . . . . 1,985 79.72 988 75.67 997 84.20 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 84.60 297 81.31 334 87.76 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,353 77.64 690 73.47 663 82.51 REGION IX - WESTERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 1,466 75.38 697 72.58 769 78.11 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588 84.91 269 81.82 319 87.70 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878 70.11 429 67.77 450 72.48 REGION X - NORTHERN MINDANAO. . . . . . 2,381 83.41 1,156 79.52 1,225 87.43 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127 87.09 553 84.00 574 90.29 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,254 80.35 603 75.82 651 85.06 REGION XI - SOUTHERN MINDANAO . . . . . 2,716 79.37 1,310 75.62 1,405 83.22 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,386 84.73 660 82.11 726 87.25 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,329 74.46 650 70.00 679 79.29 REGION XII - CENTRAL MINDANAO . . . . . 1,172 77.40 569 74.19 603 80.70 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 83.66 212 80.24 236 87.00 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 73.99 358 71.03 367 77.12 AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MUSLIM MINDANAO. . 821 61.19 423 63.24 397 59.14 URBAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 68.71 111 69.48 119 68.00 RURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 58.68 312 61.27 278 56.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: NSO-DECS 1994 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media (FLEMMS)