Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac

Awra Amba, a current experiment of utopian socialism
slightly more educated than women, the difference being only between 1 and 2 %. Two men and two
women have a baccalaureate degree, a woman a bachelor degree and two men a master degree.
The second survey concerns only the heads of household in 2008 (Ya08/91), i.e. 53 men and 34
women. It is therefore more representative of adults. 85 % of heads of household are literate,
whereas 30 % of adults only are literate in Ethiopia in 2005-2010, i.e. 18 % of women and 42 % of
men (Unicef, 2012). In Awra Amba, the rate of literate women is clearly lower than that of men, but
still remains high (68 against 96 %), 38 % of women being only able to read and write (against 57 %
of men), the difference between women and men being slightly lower at the higher levels (29 against
40 %).
Figure 13:
Distribution in % of educational level by sex in general population of Awra Amba from
7 years (Atnafu, 2005/63), among household heads of Awra Amba (Yassin, 2008/91)
and among the adult population of Amhara region (CSA, 2006).
The comparison of the distributions of educational level in general population and among heads of
household, i.e. of the results of both surveys, shows the higher illiteracy rate in general population,
where are of course the 22 % of population under 7. When we leave out these younger people, which
did not yet completed the first grade of primary school and therefore when we consider only the
population, which could be literate (see Figure 13), the illiteracy rate falls to 30 %. Those, who are
only able to read and write, are only 25 %, i.e. about two times less than among the heads of
household. Those who attended beyond the 4 th grade of primary school, i.e. the middle school and
above, are far higher in number than among the heads of household. It shows well the clearly better
educational level of young people in comparison with adults.
In 2005, two children from the community were university students (At05/63). In 2007, they
graduated from university, while nine others were attending university in different parts of the
country (Sisay, 2007). In 2009, there were respectively five and eleven (Habtamu, 2009), and in 2010
seven and ten (Jo10b). University students receive State scholarships. Two out of these seven
graduates are health officers (between nurse and doctor), one is an agricultural technician, four are
teachers (one at the faculty of medicine, one in short post-secondary school courses, one is the
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