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    • 31. Skills in Canada: First results from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies 2012 (final) Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X20132817822
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2013-10-08
    • 32. Skills in Canada: First Results from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) Archived
      Articles and reports: 89-555-X2013001
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      This report presents the first Canadian results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an initiative of OECD. PIAAC provides internationally comparable measures of three skills that are essential to processing information: literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving in technology-rich environments (referred to as PS-TRE).

      Canada is one of 24 countries and sub-national regions participating in this initiative. A sample of over 27,000 respondents was collected and allows reliable estimation at the national, provincial and territorial level.

      The report provides information about the literacy, numeracy and PS-TRE skills for the Canadian population aged 16 to 65. It provides results for Canada as a whole, as well as for all the provinces and territories. In addition, it looks at the relationships between skills proficiency and a range of socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, level of education) across the entire Canadian population. It also reports on first results on the literacy, numeracy and PS-TRE skills of Aboriginal populations, immigrants, and official-language minority communities.

      Release date: 2013-10-08
    • 33. Problem-solving Skills and Labour Market Outcomes - Results from the Latest Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) Archived
      Articles and reports: 81-004-X201200111651
      Description:

      The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey assessed four foundation skills thought to be essential for social, professional and economic success - prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy and problem solving. Eleven countries, including Canada, participated in the most recent Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, which was conducted in two main waves between 2002 and 2008.This article summarizes the key findings reported in that report, focusing on problem-solving skills, their definition, distribution in the labour force and related labour market outcomes.

      Release date: 2012-05-01
    • 34. Literacy for Life: Further Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
      Journals and periodicals: 89-604-X
      Description:

      Literacy for Life, is the second report from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. It presents additional results on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries and how these gaps have evolved over the medium term.

      It offers new insights into the factors that influence the formation of adult skills in various settings - at home and at work - for the eleven countries participating in the first and last round of data collection between 2003 and 2008. The study offers comparative evidence on the impact of various factors on the supply of skill. The study offers a special focus on numeracy skills and problem solving skills. It explores the relationships between numeracy and key socio-demographic factors as well as labour market outcomes and earnings.

      It highlights the importance of problem solving skills by defining this foundational skill and by exploring its determinants as well as its relative role in influencing important labour market outcomes.

      The report offers also an analysis of performance across multiple skill domains. It investigates the skill profiles of various population groups defined in terms of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of those who score at levels deemed to be low in one or more skill domains and explores the resulting consequences.

      The report concludes by investigating the issue of skill mismatch in the labour market and its relationship to adult learning. The extent and distribution of mismatch between the day to day literacy related requirements of workers and the literacy skills they have obtained is an important issue that is being explored in this study.

      Release date: 2011-12-20
    • 35. Earnings differences between immigrants and the Canadian-born : The role of literacy skills Archived
      Articles and reports: 81-004-X200800510798
      Description:

      In a recent Statistics Canada study, Aneta Bonikowska, David Green and Craig Riddell (2008) use data from the Canadian component of the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) to measure the literacy skills of immigrants and the Canadian-born and relate these to earnings outcomes. The analysis takes into account standard demographic information, along with information on where education was obtained and age of migration to further refine their analysis of immigrant/Canadian-born earnings differentials. This article summarizes the results of their research.

      Release date: 2009-03-04
    • 36. How Canadians' Use of the Internet Affects Social Life and Civic Participation Archived
      Articles and reports: 56F0004M2008016
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      The Internet's rapid and profound entry into our lives quite understandably makes people wonder how, both individually and collectively, we have been affected by it. When major shifts in technology use occur, utopian and dystopian views of their impact on society often abound, reflecting their disruptiveness and people's concerns. Given its complex uses, the Internet, both as a technology and as an environment, has had both beneficial and deleterious effects. Above all, though, it has had transformative effects.

      Are Canadians becoming more isolated, more reclusive and less integrated in their communities as they use the Internet? Or, are they becoming more participatory and more integrated in their communities? In addition, do these communities still resemble traditional communities, or are they becoming more like social networks than cohesive groups?

      To address these questions, this article organizes, analyzes and presents existing Canadian evidence. It uses survey results and research amassed by Statistics Canada and the Connected Lives project in Toronto to explore the role of the Internet in social engagement and the opportunities it represents for Canadians to be active citizens. It finds that Internet users are at least as socially engaged as non-users. They have large networks and frequent interactions with friends and family, although they tend to spend somewhat less in-person time and, of course, more time online. An appreciable number of Internet users are civically and politically engaged, using the Internet to find out about opportunities and make contact with others.

      Release date: 2008-12-04
    • 37. Educating Health Workers: Provincial Results Archived
      Articles and reports: 81-595-M2008068
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      Using major Statistics Canada data sources related to the education and training of Canadians, this publication presents a jurisdictional view of what we currently know on educating health workers to begin to address some critical questions facing Canadians today: Does Canada have enough interested individuals with the right skills who want to work in health? Does it have the infrastructure, capacity, and effective education system to ensure an adequate supply of health workers to meet future health care demands?

      As such, this report reveals some important information about what happens before, during and after health education. It focuses on interest in health occupations, the number of students taking and graduating from postsecondary health programs along with their socio-demographic characteristics and those of the faculty teaching these programs, the labour market experiences of recent graduates from these programs - including their mobility after graduation - as well as the ongoing participation of health workers in formal and informal training.

      Release date: 2008-10-10
    • 38. Literacy and the Labour Market: Cognitive Skills and Immigrant Earnings Archived
      Articles and reports: 89-552-M2008020
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      Considerable research effort has been devoted to understanding earnings differences between immigrant and Canadian-born workers. Previous studies have established that immigrants typically earn less than Canadian-born workers with the same amount of education and work experience. The low earnings of immigrants are often attributed to the specificity of human capital to the country where it originates - in other words, education or work experience in the country of origin cannot be directly transferred to the host country, resulting in well qualified immigrants holding low paying jobs. Another possibility is that employers in the host country discriminate against immigrants. This paper uses data from the Canadian component of the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), which includes both standard demographic and labour market information for the Canadian born and immigrants and results from tests of literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills, to investigate these issues. Interpreting the test scores as direct measurements of cognitive skills, the authors provide a closer examination of explanations for low immigrant earnings than has previously been possible. In addition, the data include more precise information on where education was obtained and age of migration than is available in most previous studies, further enabling scrutiny of immigrant-Canadian born earnings differentials.

      Release date: 2008-07-21
    • 39. International Adult Literacy Survey [Series] Archived
      Journals and periodicals: 89-552-M
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a seven-country initiative conducted in the fall of 1994. Its goal was to create comparable literacy profiles across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. Successive waves of the survey now encompass close to 30 countries around the world. This monograph series features detailed studies from the IALS database by literacy scholars and experts in Canada and the United States. The research is primarily funded by Human Resources Development Canada. Monographs focus on current policy issues and cover topics such as adult training, literacy skill match and mismatch in the workplace, seniors' literacy skills and health, literacy and economic security, and many others.

      Release date: 2008-07-21
    • 40. Literacy and the Labour Market: The Generation of Literacy and Its Impact on Earnings for Native Born Canadians Archived
      Articles and reports: 89-552-M2007018
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      This study examines the distribution of literacy skills in the Canadian economy and the ways in which they are generated. In large part, the generation of literacy skills has to do with formal schooling and parental inputs into their children's education. The nature of literacy generation in the years after individuals have left formal schooling and are in the labour market is also investigated. Once the core facts about literacy in the economy have been established, the study turns to examining the impact of increased literacy on individual earnings. Both the causal impact of literacy on earnings and the joint distribution of literacy and income are explored. The authors argue that the latter provides a more complete measure of how well an individual is able to function in society.

      The study focuses mainly on data from the Canadian component of the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), composed of a sample of over 22,000 respondents. The Canadian component of the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) is also used in order to obtain a more complete picture of how literacy changes with age and across birth cohorts.

      Release date: 2007-11-30
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    • 1. Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheet
      Journals and periodicals: 81-599-X
      Geography: Canada
      Description: The fact sheets in this series provide an "at-a-glance" overview of particular aspects of education in Canada and summarize key data trends in selected tables published as part of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP).

      The PCEIP mission is to publish a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada for policy makers, practitioners and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems across jurisdictions and over time. PCEIP is a joint venture of Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC).

      Release date: 2023-06-21
    • 2. Study: Does reading proficiency at age 15 affect employment earnings in young adulthood? Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X201929020844
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2019-10-17
    • 3. Overqualification, skills and job satisfaction Archived
      Articles and reports: 75-006-X201600114655
      Description:

      Based on a self-reported measure of overqualification, this article examines the association between overqualification and skills among workers aged 25 to 64 with a university degree, using data from the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This article also examines the extent to which overqualified workers are dissatisfied with their jobs. Overqualified workers are defined in this study as university-educated workers who reported that they were in a job requiring no more than a high school education.

      Release date: 2016-09-14
    • 4. Women and Education: Qualifications, Skills and Technology Archived
      Articles and reports: 89-503-X201500114640
      Description:

      Women have become increasingly well-educated, and today their share in the Canadian labour market is larger than ever. This chapter of Women in Canada examines women’s educational experiences, with a focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer science) education and skills. Topics include a profile of women’s education in Canada, the skills of young girls and women, field-of-study patterns at the postsecondary level, and labour market outcomes, including earnings.

      Release date: 2016-07-06
    • 5. Study: Literacy and numeracy among off-reserve First Nations people and Métis 2012 Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X201613914401
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2016-05-18
    • 6. Literacy and numeracy among off-reserve First Nations people and Métis: Do higher skill levels improve labour market outcomes? Archived
      Articles and reports: 75-006-X201600114630
      Description:

      This article examines the literacy and numeracy skills of off reserve First Nations and Métis adults aged 25 to 65, focusing on the factors and labour market outcomes associated with higher skill levels. In this study, individuals in the higher range for literacy and numeracy are defined as those who scored level 3 or higher (out of 5 levels) in tests administered by the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

      Release date: 2016-05-18
    • 7. Study: The association between skills and low income 2012 Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X201605513942
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2016-02-24
    • 8. Study: Women in Canada: First Nations, Métis and Inuit women Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X201605413681
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2016-02-23
    • 9. First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women Archived
      Articles and reports: 89-503-X201500114313
      Description:

      The chapter entitled "Women in Canada: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women" explores the diverse circumstances and experiences of Aboriginal women in Canada. Overall, the chapter highlights demographic characteristics, families, housing, knowledge of Aboriginal languages, employment, income, education, and health. Where appropriate, comparisons have been made between the Aboriginal female population and the non-Aboriginal female population as well as the Aboriginal female population and Aboriginal male population. Wherever possible, information is provided for First Nations, Métis and Inuit women separately.

      Release date: 2016-02-23
    • 10. Aboriginal statistics at a glance second edition Archived
      Stats in brief: 11-001-X201535812961
      Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
      Release date: 2015-12-24
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    • 1. Using the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies direct measures of skills in the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults Archived
      Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-648-X2015001
      Description:

      The Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) has the direct measures of skills from the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) because the two surveys had coordinated collection. The direct measures of skills cover three domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. The skills measures are reflected in sets of 10 plausible values (PVs) that were created using a multiple imputation methodology. This paper demonstrates the proper use of the PVs. It also demonstrates that reliable estimates of skills can be produced using LISA and the results are similar to what would be obtained from the PIAAC data.

      Release date: 2015-04-22
    • 2. Measuring Adult Literacy and Life Skills: New Frameworks for Assessment Archived
      Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-552-M2005013
      Geography: Canada
      Description:

      This report documents key aspects of the development of the International Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) - its theoretical roots, the domains selected for possible assessment, the approaches taken to assessment in each domain and the criteria that were employed to decide which domains were to be carried in the final design. As conceived, the ALL survey was meant to build on the success of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) assessments by extending the range of skills assessed and by improving the quality of the assessment methods employed. This report documents several successes including: · the development of a new framework and associated robust measures for problem solving · the development of a powerful numeracy framework and associated robust measures · the specification of frameworks for practical cognition, teamwork and information and communication technology literacy The report also provides insight into those domains where development failed to yield approaches to assessment of sufficient quality, insight that reminds us that scientific advance in this domain is hard won.

      Release date: 2005-03-24
    • 3. Schooling, Literacy and Individual Earnings (Highlights) Archived
      Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89F0120X
      Description:

      Direct measures of skill attainment such as the International Adult Literacy Survey are used to assess the importance of educational outcome skills such as literacy in determining labour market outcomes such as earnings. Policy makers also use them to direct resources most efficiently. However, these skill measures are the product of complex statistical procedures. This paper examines the mathematical robustness of the International Adult Literacy Survey measures against other possibilities in estimating the impact of literacy on individual earnings.

      Release date: 2000-06-02
    • 4. Backgrounder on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) Archived
      Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89F0094X
      Description:

      The Backgrounder on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) describes the history of the survey and how literacy is measured.

      Release date: 1996-09-12
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