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Calvin R. Rensch
(6.4) Percentage of Educated Men In Each Age Group in
Four Hindko Communities
Age Groups
13-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+
years years years years years
Jammun 82.4% 66.7% 68.0% 32.1% 26.2%
Singo Di Garhi 91.7 69.2 58.3 50.0 14.3
Sherpur 84.6 80.0 90.0 50.0 40.0
Balakot 100.0 75.0 55.6 38.5 33.3
From figure (6.4) we can observe that the percentage of men
who have received some education decreases as age increases, as
one might expect. Only in Sherpur is there an older group of men
(30-39 years) who have a higher education percentage than the
teenage men. It is interesting to observe that in Jammun and
Singo Di Garhi there is a rather sharp drop at the point where the
percentage falls below about 50 percent. From these figures one
can guess that the 30-39 year old men in Jammun are the first
generation to have general access to education, since fewer than
one-third of the 40-49 year old men have any education.
Similarly, one can guess that the 40-49 year old men in Singo Di
Garhi are the first generation to have general access to education,
since only 14 percent of the oldest age group have education. By
contrast, there does not seem to be a point where there is a single
sharp drop in the figures for Sherpur. Presumably education has
been available in that community for a longer period, with the
result that even many of the oldest group of men have had access
to it. The situation is similar in Balakot.
Nearly all respondents from the four communities report
having traveled to Rawalpindi. A much smaller percentage have
traveled to the much more distant city of Karachi, and an
intermediate percentage (in most localities) to the provincial
capital of Peshawar. In general, longer periods of time were
spent in the more distant cities of Karachi and Lahore. These
longer stays have probably had a greater impact on the learning
of Urdu than have the shorter but much more frequent visits to
Rawalpindi/Islamabad.