Directory: Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (2003)

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This product contains the public microdata for the
Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. 

The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is a large-scale
co-operative effort undertaken in 2003 by governments, national
statistics agencies, research institutions and multi-lateral agencies.
The ALL study builds on the International Adult Literacy Survey
(IALS),the world's first internationally comparative survey of adult
skills undertaken in three rounds of data collection between 1994 and
1998. 

The foundation skills measured in the ALL survey include prose literacy,
document literacy, numeracy and problem solving. Additional skills
assessed indirectly include familiarity with and use of information and
communication technologies. 

The development and management of the study were co-ordinated by
Statistics Canada and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in
collaboration with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
of the United States Department of Education, the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Regional Office for
Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC) and the Institute for
Statistics (UIS) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). 

This dataset is composed of seven countries or regions that collected
data in 2003. They include Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Norway, Switzerland,
the United States and the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon. 


DIRECTORY:  /dli/all/2003/data
SUB-DIRECTORY:

ascii

filename                      description
alls_pumf.txt			data file in ASCII format

sas
filename				description
ALL_pumf_E.sas7bdat		data file in SAS format
ALL_Sas_E.sas			SAS syntax file

spss
filename				description
ALL_pumf_E.sav			data file in SPSS format
ALL_SPSS_E.sps			SPSS syntax file


DOCUMENTATION:
DIRECTORY:  /dli/all/2003/doc

filename		                 description

all2003gid.pdf			    User's guide
all2003cbk.pdf			    Master Codebook

all2003stattool.zip

STATTOOL programs was design by Statistics Canada to help users manipulate
the ALL data.

Download date:
Jan. 15, 2007
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