International Survey of Reading Skills (ISRS)

Dataset Information
Name  International Survey of Reading Skills (ISRS)
UUID  0318ea20-9d4f-41bb-a6a6-9ae90a4bbfea
Site  Statistics Canada - Research Data Centres
Region  Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan
Description  The International Survey of Reading Skills (ISRS) was a follow-up to the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS, record number 4406) conducted by Statistics Canada in March 2003. The ISRS was part of an international survey being undertaken by Statistics Canada in partnership with, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSD), National Centre for Education Statistics (NCES) and Education Testing and Service (ETS)
Format  None
Purpose  Other objectives are to: - Measure the underlying reading skills described above and show how the results are distributed over the population - Group low-literacy adults according to their underlying reading skills in order to identify: - The size of each group - The common socio-economic characteristics of each group - An appropriate curriculum for each group based upon their socio-economic characteristics and their underlying reading skills - Compare the underlying reading skills results of low literacy and high literacy adults - Identify the relationship between these underlying reading skills to other characteristics of adult with low literacy
Scope  Adults, aged 16 to 65 years.
Data Level  Individual
Collection Period  01/01/2004-12/31/2005
Last Updated 2023-11-28

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