Literacy increase speed

[Ulfberht]

Is literacy gained a flat increase as long as education access is higher than literacy for a pop-group?

Or does setting a much higher education access in realtion to actual literacy increase the speed with which the literacy is improved?

For example:
1. Literacy is 17% and education access is 20%
2. Literacy is 17% and education access is 50%
Both increase literacy. Does #2 speed up the literacy gains compared to #1?

[Joker1321]

yes it certainly does. Literacy gains are affected by higher education access. I wanted to test this out myself. I did so by starting a game and letting a year run without doing anything to mess with the country I was 'playing'. I just turned it on, let it rip, and saw that in one year, without building any additional universities or enacting and decrees or laws, or investing in the education institution the literacy rate increased about 2% from whatever was already built in the Netherlands at the start of the game. Then I opened up the game files and modded the social mobility decree to the following:

decree_promote_social_mobility = {
texture = "gfx/interface/icons/decree/decree_promote_social_mobility.dds"
modifier = {
state_education_access_add = 1000
state_pop_qualifications_mult = 10
}
cost = 5

ai_weight = {
value = 0

if = {
limit = {
literacy_rate < 0.25
}
add = 75
}
if = {
limit = {
literacy_rate < 0.5
}
add = 75
}
if = {
limit = {
literacy_rate < 0.75
}
add = 50
}
if = {
limit = {
scope:country = {
OR = {
has_strategy = ai_strategy_reactionary_agenda
has_strategy = ai_strategy_conservative_agenda
has_strategy = ai_strategy_maintain_mandate_of_heaven
}
}
}
multiply = 0.5
}
if = {
limit = {
scope:country = {
OR = {
has_strategy = ai_strategy_progressive_agenda
has_strategy = ai_strategy_egalitarian_agenda
}
}
}
multiply = 1.5
}
}
}

So you can see that I changed the education access to a factor of 1000 and the qualifications to a factor of 10 ( why not I was already cheating anyway. This causes the literacy in the Netherlands to be approaching nearly 100% within just a few years, up from 46% where they start.