{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "gender",
  "product": "gender",
  "source": "National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI, as reprinted in MoSPI's Women and Men in India 2025 (table 3.2)",
  "agency": "National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI",
  "compendiumTable": "3.2",
  "indicatorCode": 56,
  "base": "as published",
  "frequency": "irregular",
  "unit": "mixed",
  "vintage": "2026-10-09",
  "geo": "IND",
  "latestPeriod": "NSS 75th round, 2017-18",
  "releaseDate": "2026-04-29",
  "revisionPolicy": "Each indicator is final as its underlying source publishes; the compendium is a curated cross-source portrait, never a single survey.",
  "coverage": "Gender Gap in Literacy Rate for persons of age 7 years and above",
  "periodLabels": {
   "2007-07-01": "NSS 64th round, 2007-08",
   "2014-01-01": "NSS 71st round, 2014",
   "2017-07-01": "NSS 75th round, 2017-18"
  },
  "cut": "Measure, rural or urban and sex",
  "note": "MoSPI's compendium reprints this table from National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI; the figures are that agency's. Values printed as \"-\" (no observation) or \"NR\" (not reported) are not baked; meta.omitted counts them.",
  "omitted": {}
 },
 "dates": [
  "2007-07-01",
  "2014-01-01",
  "2017-07-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "literacy_rate__rural__male__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__rural__male__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Rural, Male, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    77,
    80.1,
    81.5
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "literacy_rate__rural__female__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__rural__female__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Rural, Female, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    56.7,
    61.9,
    65
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "literacy_rate__rural__person__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__rural__person__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Rural, Person, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    67,
    71.4,
    73.5
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "literacy_rate__urban__male__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__urban__male__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Urban, Male, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    89.9,
    91.1,
    92.2
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "literacy_rate__urban__female__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__urban__female__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Urban, Female, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    78.1,
    81,
    82.8
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "literacy_rate__urban__person__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_literacy_rate__urban__person__all_india",
   "label": "Literacy Rate, Urban, Person, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "percent",
   "data": [
    84.3,
    86.1,
    87.7
   ],
   "group": "Literacy Rate",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "gender_gap__rural__gender_gap__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_gender_gap__rural__gender_gap__all_india",
   "label": "Gender Gap, Rural, Gender Gap, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "pp",
   "data": [
    20.3,
    18.2,
    16.5
   ],
   "group": "Gender Gap",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "gender_gap__urban__gender_gap__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_gender_gap__urban__gender_gap__all_india",
   "label": "Gender Gap, Urban, Gender Gap, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "pp",
   "data": [
    11.8,
    10.1,
    9.4
   ],
   "group": "Gender Gap",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "gender_gap__total__gender_gap__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t56_gender_gap__total__gender_gap__all_india",
   "label": "Gender Gap, Total, Gender Gap, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "pp",
   "data": [
    18.2,
    15.8,
    14.4
   ],
   "group": "Gender Gap",
   "geo": "All India"
  }
 }
}