International Adult Literacy Skills Survey (Canada): Public Use Microdata File and User Guide
Public use microdata: 89M0022X
This product, offered on CD-ROM, contains the Canadian public microdata for the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS). IALSS is the Canadian component of the Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (ALL).
The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is a large-scale co-operative effort undertaken in 2003 by governments, national statistics agencies, research institutions and multi-lateral agencies. The ALL study builds on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the world's first internationally comparative survey of adult skills undertaken in three rounds of data collection between 1994 and 1998.
The foundation skills measured in the ALL survey include prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy, and problem solving. Additional skills assessed indirectly include familiarity with and use of information and communication technologies.
The development and management of the study were co-ordinated by Statistics Canada and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in collaboration with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the United States Department of Education, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC) and the Institute for Statistics (UIS) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Titles | Release date | More Information |
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International Adult Literacy Skills Survey (Canada): Public Use Microdata File and User Guide, 2003 - ARCHIVED | November 14, 2013 | More information |
International Adult Literacy Skills Survey (Canada): Public Use Microdata File and User Guide, 2003 - ARCHIVED | January 4, 2007 | More information |
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- Public use microdata: Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey: Public Use Microdata File
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- Journals and periodicals: Building on Our Competencies: Canadian Results of the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey
- Journals and periodicals: Learning a Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
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