Literal question
<svar v="MX00A420 MX00A421 MX00A422 MX00A423 MX00A424 MX00A425 MX00A426 MX00A427">Ask only if this person is five years old or more<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="MX00A426">13. Literacy<br /><br />Does this person know how to read and write a message? Circle only one answer.<br /><div class="i1">3 Yes<br />4 No</div><br /></svar>
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="MX00A426"><span class="em">13. Literacy</span><br /><br />A person knows how to read and write when they can read and write at least a message in any tongue or language.<br /><br />Keep in mind that a person does not know how to read nor write if they can only write their name, a few words, or numbers.<br /><br />With responses, such as "I read a little," "not much," "more or less," or "I have bad handwriting," it is necessary to ask if they really can read and write a message.<br /><br />If, because of an accident or advanced age, the person cannot read or write, but they knew how to do so, consider them as knowing how.<br /><br />[Depiction of this completed question on the enumeration form, and a related drawing]<br /><br />Even if the person does not know how to read and write, always ask the questions for attendance and schooling.<br /></svar>
