 Concerning education, 20.8% of the population were considered literate, which is greater than the Zone average of 9.01%; 33.01% of the children aged 7-12 were in primary school, which is greater than the Zone average of 11.34%; 3.38% of the children aged 13-14 were in junior secondary school, which is also greater than the Zone average of 0.65%; and 4.11% of the children aged 15-18 were in senior secondary school, which is greater than the Zone average of 0.51%.Concerning sanitary conditions, about 80% of the urban houses and 35% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; about 32% of the urban and 12% of all houses had toilet facilities.A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 13,859 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.85 hectares of land.