This third volume of our educational data collection deriving from the 1910 Hungarian census calls for a comparative exercise, since it offers the relevant information on Eastern Slovakia representing data equivalent to those already published on the Western counties and cities of the region ('Upper Hungary' at that time). A comparison is worth making on all major variables combined in our tables: regional districts, urban and extra-urban residence, gender, confessional groups and age clusters (the latter representing the major social variables mobilized here) as well as ethnic divisions (not combined with but including religion) on the one hand – as supposedly independent factors -, and levels of education on the other hand - as the dependent factor, following our principal working hypothesis. But, at least implicitly or hypothetically, one also has to draw into the picture some rather composite external variables, like degrees of 'assimilation' and integration in the Magyar dominated nation state and its 'titular elites', levels of 'modernization' of various brackets under scrutiny, their urbanization and migration patterns as well as their professional or social class stratification.

Our comments will focus on some general features and relationships regarded as essential and cannot dispense with a closer study of local differentials and correlations on the country or city level proper (which are also permitted by the detailed information presented herewith). Some of our findings may help to complete the results of recent research accomplished in Hungary, Slovakia proper and elsewhere on the problem area of the development of the educational provision in Slovakia before the foundation of the Czechoslovak state. But this is essentially an 'internal study' drawing almost exclusively on data contained in our two statistical volumes dedicated to Slovakia.