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| International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) |
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| Statistics Canada - Research Data Centres |
| Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan |
| The International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey was a seven-country initiative conducted in 2003. In every country nationally representative samples of adults aged 16-65 were interviewed and tested at home, using the same psychometric test to measure prose and document literacy as well as numeracy and problem-solving skills. |
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| The main purpose of the survey was to find out how well adults used printed information to function in society. Another aim was to collect data on the incidence and volume of participation in adult education and training, and to investigate the relationships between initial and adult education, on the one hand, and literacy, numeracy and problem-solving proficiency and wider economic and social outcomes, on the other. |
| This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design representing Canadian adults aged 16 and over not residing in institutions or on Aboriginal reserves. In addition to provincial and territorial estimates, the survey was designed to provide reliable estimates for a variety of special target populations such as recent and established immigrants, Francophones in New Brunswick, Manitoba and Ontario, Anglophones in Quebec, Urban Aboriginals in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Youth in Quebec and British Columbia and Aboriginal residents in the three northern territories.
The population that was in fact covered by the survey differed in a number of practical respects, but all of these exclusions combined are still within the survey standard of no more than 2% of the total population. Residents of sparsely populated regions were excluded from the survey population. It is estimated that the coverage for the survey was 98.5% nationally, with provincial coverages ranging from 95% to nearly 100%. In the northern territories, reduced levels of coverage (70-90%) were obtained |
| Individual |
| 01/01/2003-12/31/2003 |
| 2023-11-28 |
