Literacy and the Family Relationship between the Litigants

Family members suing each other were much more likely to both be illiterate than non-related participants. In almost half of the family cases when the literacy of both the plaintiff and the defendant was recorded, neither side was literate. The same was true for only 16% of the non-family cases.

Literacy and the Family Relationship between the Litigants

		Literacy of the Plaintiff and of the Defendant		Total
		Neither is literate	At least one side is literate
Defendant's Family Relationship with the Plaintiff	Not related	11 15.5 %	60 84.5 %	71
	Related	8 44.4 %	10 55.6 %	18
Total		19	70	89

Correlation between Literacy and Family Ties

Value		Asymp. Std. Error	Approx. T	Approx. Sig.
Spearman Correlation N	-.284 89	.120	-2.761	.007(c)