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Literacy rate is one of the elemental indicators that is utilized to get first hand information regarding the quality and caliber of the human resources in a particular region or country. This measure furnishes useful information not only to evaluate the current state of educational development of a nation but also provides benchmark data for planning to improve the quality of human capital. It is therefore, of paramount importance to have reliable data on this crucially important indicator. Literacy rate, in Pakistan, is generally obtained on the basis of information collected through the decennial Population Censuses. Nevertheless, literacy rates arc also obtained as a by product based on the information collected through other surveys such as Labour force surveys etc. In most of the developing countries like Pakistan, the quality of literacy data is generally poor and as such, cannot be used as a measure to assess the quality of human resources in the country. The results of some studies conducted by international agencies conclude that the actual literacy was almost 2 to 5 % less as claimed by various sources like Population Censuses and Labour Force Surveys (see for instance World Development Report, 1983). Nonetheless there are sizeable differences in literacy figures as reported by various sources. Any planning effort based on such controversial figures will, therefore, cause confusion and controversy. This highlights the need to evaluate the quality of data regarding literacy in such a manner that the better sources can be identified on one hand and the poor sources may be improved on the other. This article, hence, briefly deals with the literacy situation in Pakistan but focuses more on the quality aspect of data produced through various sources.
Mehrnood ul lIassan, Furooq Tanveer. (1994) CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE LITERACY DATA IN PAKISTAN, , Volume 31, Issue 4.
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