Examples of illiterate

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The poor and illiterate elector has since 1979 repeatedly exercised his power to throw out regimes unacceptable to him.
The level of education is not very high - 35.83 per cent of the population are illiterate.
The persons who had never attended primary school were regarded as illiterate.
The vast majority of these pupils were, and remained, illiterate.
The education variable was assessed with nine alternatives ranging from illiterate to university level.
Chileans were mostly illiterate, of illegitimate birth, plagued with disease - many congenital - and the elite, both conservatives and liberals, even opposed vaccinations.
At the other extreme are the traditionalists who favour very large families: the farmers, the illiterate, the polygynous, and the aged.
About 60% of the women referred to the state-funded family planning programme were illiterate.
If however he is illiterate, he may say quickly in order in the inmost part of his heart, deus miserere mihi peccatori, servo tuo.
To be sure, the authors do not advocate illiteracy as a means of keeping languages alive in illiterate communities.
About 23 percent of the world population is illiterate.
Compared to illiterate respondents, the odds of not agreeing with pharmacists' participation in treatment decisions were 2.474 greater for graduates.
Two-thirds of subjects were illiterate, with only 10 % having gone beyond school education.
Clearly more data about language mixing among illiterates must become available before we can draw any further conclusions.
Pidgin is therefore, as it were, mostly used horizontally and rarely vertically, except to bridge a communication gap between literates and illiterates.
The service sector, which was growing with the liberalisation, would not employ illiterates.
The process was democratic insofar as it was by adult franchise and secret ballot, although illiterates could receive assistance from two booth attendants.
Perhaps the directionality of this relationship is best explored in carefully designed studies of adult illiterates.
The illiterates' right to vote was not reestablished until 1978.
The intellectual is thus identified here as a member of an elite, distinguished from the mass of inarticulate illiterates who form the rest of the population.
They are the illiterates' books.
The rhyming tasks were surprisingly difficult for both the illiterates and the poorer readers; this may have been because of rapid changing of tasks in the experimental design.
Illiterate people can not be given a questionnaire, though they may, of course, be interviewed.
During the period from 1980 to 1984, literacy programmes were reaching between 1.1 and 1.9 per cent of the illiterate population aged ten and above.
According to the 1981 census, 46.5 per cent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate.
In addition to this effort, education of poor and illiterate farmers should not be ignored.
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