Not adding up
Thank you for your article on the UAE (NI 543), from which I learned a lot. One question arose for me regarding the literacy statistics, largely due to my compulsive counting obsession. If men scored 92.56 per cent and women 95.8 per cent, what missing component dragged the overall average up to 98.13 per cent?
TONY GLASBEY (VIA EMAIL)
: This was an editorial error. The figure for the total population is correct, with
