District-level literacy rates from the 1961 Census of India.
Format
A tibble with 347 rows and 8 columns:
- year
Census year (1961)
- state
Name of the state
- state_name_harmonized
Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
- district
Name of the district
- state_district_code
Combined state-district code
- literacy_total
Total literacy rate (percent)
- literacy_male
Male literacy rate (percent)
- literacy_female
Female literacy rate (percent)
Source
Jolad, Shivakumar and Singh, Madhav (2026). "Indian Census Data Collection, 1901-2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets." Harvard Dataverse. doi:10.7910/DVN/ON8CP8 .