International Adult Literacy Survey - Canada - Custom Tabulations

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations. The countries of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States participated in the IALS.

The Canadian IALS survey had a number of objectives. These were:

a) to provide an updated profile of adult literacy abilities for Canada for comparison to that provided by the 1989 Survey of Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (LSUDA);

b) to provide sufficiently large numbers of Franco-Ontarians, seniors, social assistance recipients, unemployment insurance recipients and out-of-school youth to profile their skill levels;

c) to shed light on the relationship between performance, educational attainment, labour market participation and employment for those at certain literacy levels; and

d) to compare Canadian literacy levels with those in other countries.

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