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| Ontario Adult Literacy Survey (OALS) |
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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 |
| Further, the study measured Ontario's immigrants' perceived skills in English or French and in their own mother tongue (if applicable) as well as perceived needs with regard to training and the barriers which may restrict access to such training. |
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| The goal of the proposed study was to obtain a literacy profile for immigrants living in Ontario, in the reading of either English or French. In particular, immigrants from the Caribbean with a mother tongue of English and immigrants with a mother tongue of Chinese, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian were profiled. |
| Sample of households identified from the 1996 Census as containing at least one adult immigrant. One person per household is seleted by the interviewer using a Kish selection grid.
Responding to this survey is voluntary.
Data are collected directly from survey respondents.
Interviewers who regularly conduct the Labour Force Survey (LFS) were the majority of the interviewers employed for OALS. Due to the concentration of the sample in urban Ontario, additional interviewers were also hired and trained according to the LFS procedures. Hence, most of the data collection procedures used for the LFS were implemented for the OALS.
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| Individual |
| 01/01/1998-12/31/1998 |
| 2023-11-28 |
