| Percentage distribution of workers by literacy | ||||||||||||
| Delhi | Haryana | UP | Total | |||||||||
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| M | F | T | M | F | T | M | F | T | M | F | T |
| Literate | 1.9 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Illiterate | 40.8 | 80.0 | 46.7 | 40.5 | 83.3 | 51.4 | 23.5 | 73.3 | 34.1 | 36.9 | 79.3 | 44.9 |
| Below primary | 16.7 | 6.7 | 15.2 | 15.8 | 7.4 | 13.7 | 13.3 | 2.2 | 10.9 | 15.7 | 5.7 | 13.9 |
| Primary | 13.8 | 5.3 | 12.6 | 12.7 | 5.6 | 10.8 | 13.3 | 6.7 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 5.7 | 12.0 |
| Middle | 17.4 | 1.3 | 15.0 | 19.6 | 1.9 | 15.1 | 30.1 | 13.3 | 26.5 | 20.7 | 4.6 | 17.6 |
| Matric | 6.8 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 8.9 | 1.9 | 7.1 | 12 | 0 | 9.5 | 8.4 | 2.3 | 7.3 |
| Inter | 2.1 | 0 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0 | 1.4 | 4.8 | 0 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 0 | 2.2 |
| Graduate | 0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Technical | 0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Average years of schooling* | 6.1 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 5.2 | 6.2 |