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Indiana University Studies 



Compared with other States* as to illiteracy, Indiana's rank is 

 eleventh, there being ten States with a smaller percentage of 

 illiteracy and thirty-eight States with a greater percentage. On 

 the basis of native whites, Indiana's rank was thirtieth, there 

 being twenty-nine States with a smaller percentage and nineteen 

 States with a greater percentage. Considering illiteracy among 

 foreign born whites, Indiana ranked thirty-second, there being 

 thirty-one States with a smaller percentage and seventeen with a 

 greater percentage. On the basis of illiteracy among negroes, 

 Indiana ranked thirty-first, there being thirty States where the 

 percentage was smaller and eighteen where it was greater. These 

 facts are presented in Table 10. 



* Including the District of Columbia. 



