Literacy rates and gender

Literacy rates and gender Year level: Upper secondary Learning outcome Students will analyse statistics to compare the life situations of people in East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Australia. Use the latest Human Development Report http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ to fill out the statistics in the following table. Then create graphs. Graphs could also be created using the statistics and tools for the latest UNICEF State of the world’s children report http://www.unicef.org/publications/index.html   East Timor/Timor-Leste Australia Life expectancy at birth     GDP per capita (PPP US $)     Population living below the national poverty line     Population, total     Fertility rate, total (births per woman)     Under-5 mortality rate     Population using an improved water source     Children under weight for age (% under age 5)     Public expenditure on education (% GDP)     Adult literacy rate, female     Adult literacy rate, male     Net primary enrolment rate     Maternal mortality ratio, adjusted (per 100,000 live births)     Seats in parliament (% held by women)     Write and discuss What do the statistics and graphs indicate about life in East Timor compared to life in Australia? What do the statistics and graphs indicate about life for women in East Timor compared to life for women in Australia? How do the statistics about women indicate their status in society? Do the statistics indicate a relationship between the literacy rates of women and the number of children they have? (you may have to investigate some other countries as well to investigate this relationship)   Assessment task Use the statistics to evaluate the priorities of the East Timorese government’s spending on health and education to improve the lives of their people.