Description: The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by twenty governments and three intergovernmental organizations.

There are very significant differences between the levels of literacy in different countries, as demonstrated by a series of International Adult Literacy Surveys (IALS) that …

Conducted between 1994 and 1998, the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was the first-ever, large-scale, international comparative assessment designed to identify and measure a range of adult skills and to help assess the impact of literacy in the 20th-century global economies.

1 Introduction The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was the first-ever comparative survey of adults designed to profile and explore the literacy distributions among participating countries.

This paper offers a framework that has been used for both developing the tasks used to measure literacy and for understanding the meaning of what has been reported with respect to the comparative literacy proficiencies of adults in participating countries. The framework consists of six parts that

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a large-scale co-operative effort by governments, national statistical agencies, research institutions and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

On an international level, there are three adult literacy surveys, the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL), the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), and the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) which is currently in progress. Data from ALL and IALS reveal that low skills are found in

Sample Design. Each country participating in IALS agreed to design a high-quality probability sample representing the adult non-institutional civilian population aged 16 to 65.

Adult Literacy Population Assessments. Beginning with the U.S.-focused National Adult Literacy Survey in 1992, population assessments of the literacy skills found among adults have increasingly underscored that gaps exist between the skills adults have …

The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) survey was the first comprehensive attempt to profile the literacy skills of 16 to 64 s worldwide. It was developed by the the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was carried out from 1994 to 1998 in 20, predominantly developed, countries including Ireland.