Does iCloud Backup Calendar & Contacts?

Suppose you don't have a Mac or a PC, and the only device you have is an iPad. And suppose you're using iCloud for Mail, but not for Contacts and Calendar. If you set your iPad to Backup to iCloud (instead of to iTunes on a computer), does it backup all of your Contacts and Calendar data, or is that not included?

Looking at that "iCloud: Backup and restore overview" document it seems to me that the Contacts and Calendar data aren't backed up. It says:
"Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)".
But that's just the settings, not the actual data. If you've filled the Contacts app on your iPad with 1000 entries and your only backup is via iCloud Backup in iOS, I personally don't think iCloud is storing a backup of those 1000 contacts, it's just storing your settings/preferences.

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Unless as part of a backup, or stored somewhere else, they are gone.
Your son needs his own Apple ID for iCloud, FaceTime & iMessage. He can continue to use yours for iTunes content, but for everything else, he needs his own.
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Hi,
Just updated my wife's iPad4 to iOS7 yesterday....
She hates it for the most part and wishes she could go back to iOS6.....
Meanwhile, the problem we need the communities help with is the following....
1. Photos
We noticed that some photos in her library seem to have disappeared.
Also, the way the photos are shown and organized in Photos is different now. So, she's not happy about that either...but not sure there's anything we can do about this now.
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hoping someone could help me out.
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