Table 47.—Showing the PROPORTION PER CENT.—PERSONS, MALES, and FEMALES—ABLE TO READ AND WRITE, ABLE TO READ ONLY, UNABLE TO READ OR WRITE, and whose DEGREE OF EDUCATION WAS NOT STATED at each CENSUS taken in the Colony of QUEENSLAND, BEAR TO THE RESPECTIVE TOTALS.

DEGREE OF EDUCATION.	PROPORTION PER CENT.
	1861.			1864.			1868.			1871.			1876.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
QUEENSLAND	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Read and Write	57.06	62.90	48.21	62.48	68.16	53.66	63.66	66.75	58.86	61.83	65.74	56.01	63.90	65.23	61.07
Read only	12.24	9.53	16.35	11.31	8.53	15.62	9.34	8.02	11.38	9.97	7.93	12.99	7.98	6.49	10.25
Cannot Read or Write	30.70	27.57	35.44	26.21	23.31	30.72	27.00	25.23	29.76	27.29	25.13	30.52	26.77	26.64	26.97
Degree of Education unspecified										0.91	1.20	0.48	1.35	1.64	0.91