Northeast Region

In the domiciles that possess superior income the ten minimum wages, the index is of only 1.4%, while in the families that possess inferior income to a minimum wage the index reaches 29%. In the Northeast Region the contrast is still bigger. In the domiciles with income until a minimum wage the index is of about 37%, and in the families with income above of ten minimum wages the illiteracy it is of 1,8% of the population of fifteen years or more. The illiteracy reaches people of all the etrias bands, with different intensities. In the ten band the nineteen years, 7.4% of the population are of illiterates. ' ' While the illiterates in the more advanced etrias bands had been created by the educational system of decades behind, the illiterates youngest must have been alfabetizados throughout the last years, thus showing the current situation of basic education in our Pas' ' , he affirms Otaviano Helene, president of the INEP. The biggest concentration of illiterates is in the population of sixty years or more, where 34% of the people do not know to read and to write.

The report defends specific strategies directed toward each etrio segment. ' ' What the works in the area show is that the recm-alfabetizados pupils must immediately be directed it regular education, to prevent one of the characteristics most common in programs of alfabetizao in mass: the return to the condition of illiterate in short term of tempo.' ' In the Brazilian agricultural way, the illiteracy tax is three times superior to the one of the urban population: 28.7% and 9.5%, respectively. The regional contrasts sufficiently are accented, when the situation in the field is compared. North-eastern, the index is of 40,7%, reaching 49.2% in the State of the Piau. The best situation is in the South Region, with 11,9% of illiterates in the agricultural area.