Literacy of Plaintiffs and Defendants, Civil and Criminal Cases

The literacy of plaintiffs and the literacy of defendants are moderately correlated in civil cases; this correlation is statistically significant. For criminal cases, there is a weak positive correlation between the literacy of plaintiffs and the literacy of defendants. It is close to being statistically significant, but does not quite reach the significance level. It means that literate peasants were more likely to sue other literate peasants when it came to civil cases; although the tendency is the same for criminal cases, it is not as pronounced. Unfortunately, the small number of cases does not allow conducting separate analysis for female and male plaintiffs.

Literacy of Plaintiffs and Defendants, Civil and Criminal Cases, All Years

Types of Cases			Defendant's Literacy		Total
			Illiterate	Literate
Civil cases	Plaintiff's Literacy	Illiterate	29	29	58
			50.0%	50.0%	100.0%
		Literate	16	72	88
			18.2%	81.8%	100.0%
	Total		45	101	146
			30.8%	69.2%	100.0%
Criminal cases	Plaintiff's Literacy	Illiterate	26	37	63
			41.3%	58.7%	100.0%
		Literate	17	49	66
			25.8%	74.2%	100.0%
	Total		43	86	129
			33.3%	66.7%	100.0%

Correlation between the Literacy of Plaintiffs and the Defendants, Civil and Criminal Cases, All Years

Types of Cases	Value		Asymp. Std. Error	Approx. T	Approx. Sig.
Civil cases	Spearman Correlation N	.337 146	.080	4.298	.000
Criminal cases	Spearman Correlation N	.164 129	.087	1.879	.062