International Adult Literacy Skills Survey (Canada) 2003 - ialss
Enquête internationale sur l'alphabétisation et les compétences des adultes (Canada) 2003 - eiaca

This product contains the Canadian public microdata for the
International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS). IALSS is the
Canadian component of the Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (ALL). 

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. 



DIRECTORY:  
            /dli/ialss/2003/data
            /dli/ialss/2003/doc


DATA FILE(S):
DIRECTORY:  /dli/ialss/2003/data

filename                      size          description

ialss2003dat.zip          7,835,203          compressed

  ialss2003dat.txt                         uncompressed,
                                           927  Maximum line length,
					           constant records
					23,038  Line feeds
		                    21,402,302  Total characters

DOCUMENTATION:
DIRECTORY:  /dli/ialss/2003/doc

filename		francais                 description

ialss2003gid.pdf	eiaca2003gid.pdf        User's guide
ialss2003cbk.pdf	eiaca2003cbk.pdf        Master Codebook
ialss2003que.pdf	eiaca2003que.pdf	Questionnaire

89-617-xwe.pdf	        89-617-xwf.pdf		Building on Our Competencies: Canadian Results of the IALSS



ialss2003stattool.zip

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


SYSTEM FILE(S):
DIRECTORY:  /dli/ialss/2003/doc

filename		francais              

ialss2003.sps          eiaca2003.sps       
ialss2003.sas          eiaca2003.sas