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When children for whom there are 10 or more children’sbooks or picture books are taken into account, only a smallpercentage of children in urban areas have 10 or morebooks (15 percent), and even less in rural areas (4 percent).Table CD.3R: Learning materials, Roma Settlements, 2010Percentage of children under age 5 by numbers of children’s books present in the household,and by playthings that child plays withHousehold has for the child:3 or morechildren’s books 110 or morechildren’s booksHomemade toysChild plays with:Toys from a shop/manufacturedtoysHouseholdobjects/objectsfound outsideTwo or moretypes ofplaythings 2Number ofchildren underage 5SexMale 21.2 9.4 25.7 79.7 57.0 53.3 823Female 25.2 12.9 29.6 77.0 58.0 55.5 781AreaUrban 29.2 14.8 28.1 85.1 57.9 57.9 1084Rural 10.5 3.5 26.7 64.5 56.6 47.0 520Age0–23 months 9.6 3.5 16.9 69.3 37.4 35.2 59224–59 months 31.1 15.6 33.9 83.7 69.2 65.6 1012Mother’s educationNone 10.0 4.2 21.9 65.9 59.6 47.1 319Primary 24.0 10.7 30.7 80.0 57.1 56.1 1111Secondary 39.3 25.2 16.5 90.4 55.2 54.5 166Wealth index quintilesPoorest 7.6 3.9 25.5 56.9 63.5 47.8 396Second 14.7 5.7 29.4 79.5 58.5 57.7 380Middle 25.3 9.1 30.6 85.5 58.4 58.4 288Fourth 29.8 14.6 17.9 87.6 38.3 41.1 276Richest 49.2 28.6 35.1 91.7 66.1 69.1 264Total 23.1 11.1 27.6 78.4 57.5 54.4 16041MICS indicator 6.32MICS indicator 6.4Table CD.3R also shows that 54 percent of children agedbetween 0–59 months had 2 or more playthings to playwith in their homes. The playthings in MICS includedhomemade toys (such as dolls and cars, or other toys madeat home), toys that came from a store, and householdobjects (such as pots and bowls) or objects and materialsfound outside the home (such as sticks, rocks, animal shells,or leaves). It is interesting to note that 78 percent of childrenplay with toys that come from a store. The proportion ofchildren who have 2 or more playthings is 53 percent amongboys and 56 percent among girls. There are some urban-rural differentials, namely, that 58 percent of children havetwo or more playthings in urban areas, and 47 percent inrural areas. There are also remarkable differentials in termsof mothers’ education and socioeconomic status, and toysfrom stores are present more often among children whosehousehold has higher socioeconomic status or whosemother has higher education.MONITORING THE SITUATION OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN 147