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Clarification on the Alleged 19 Million Functionally Illiterate High School Graduates and Junior High School Completers

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) would like to clarify the “19 million functionally illiterate high school graduates and junior high school completers” based from the results of the 2024 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey…
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For every 10 Filipinos, 9 have Basic Literacy, while 7 have Functional Literacy

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has conducted the 2024 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), which aims to gather data as bases in determining the state of literacy in the country.
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Functional literacy rate of Filipinos by exposure to different forms of mass media ranges from 92.6 percent to 97.1 percent in 2019

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Filipinos 10 to 64 years old who are exposed to different forms of mass media registered high functional literacy rates in 2019, according to the results of 2019 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS).
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Functional Literacy Rate is Estimated at 91.6 Percent in 2019

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About 91.6 percent Filipinos 10 to 64 years old were functional literate1 in 2019, according to the results of the 2019 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS). This translates to around 73.0 million out of 79.7 million in the…
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For every 100 Filipinos, 94 are Basic Literate in 2019

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Ninety-four of every 100 Filipinos five (5) years old and over are basic literate in 2019, according to the results of the 2019 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS). Females posted higher basic literacy (94.5%) compared to…
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Out-of-School Children and Youth in the Philippines (Results from the 2013 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey)

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The 2013 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) covered around 36 million population aged 6 to 24 years. According to the survey, one in every ten or about 4 million Filipino children and youth was out-of-school in 2013. Out-…
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Education of Women and Men

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The Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) shows the educational attainment of the population aged six years old and over. The survey results in 2003 and 2008 revealed an increasing trend in the proportion of population aged…
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Almost Nine Out of Ten Filipinos Are Functionally Literate (Final Results from the 2008 Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey)

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Fifty-eight million of the estimated 67 million Filipinos 10 to 64 years old are functionally literate, according to the results of the 2008 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS). In this survey, a functionally literate…
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1994 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (Other Published Tables)

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Literacy Status of Filipinos (Results from the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey)

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About one in every 10 Filipinos 10 to 64 years old cannot read and write According to the results of the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), about one in 10 of the population 10 to 64 years old cannot read and write…
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