 Concerning education, 9.58% of the population were considered literate, which is greater than the Zone average of 9.01%; 11.09% of children aged 7-12 were in primary school, which is less than the Zone average of 11.34%; 0.21% of the children aged 13-14 were in junior secondary school, which is less than the Zone average of 0.65%; none of the inhabitants aged 15-18 were in senior secondary school.Concerning sanitary conditions, about 90% of the urban houses and 34% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; about 12% of the urban and 6% of the total had toilet facilities.A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 17,471 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 1.23 hectares of land.