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Download full textMamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
Using the data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this Data Point summarizes the number of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy and describes how they differ by nativity status and race/ethnicity. PIAAC is a large-scale international study of working-age adults (ages 16-65) that assesses…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, English, Racial Differences
Organization of American States, Washington, DC. Dept. of Educational Affairs. – 1979
This atlas supplies data on the educational situation of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Santa Lucia, Dominican Republic, Surinam, and Trinidad and Tobago. Chapter 1 shows a global panorama consolidated at the regional level of the illiteracy problem for the population from ten years of age and over and of the groups without…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Census Figures
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Statistics on Education. – 1977
This publication presents statistics on educational attainment and illiteracy by country, age, sex, and other characteristics where available. Data are derived from censuses and surveys carried out since 1945, supplemented by a limited number of estimates. Most of the basic data is taken from the "Demographic Yearbook Population Census"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Talbot, Winthrop – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
"Illiterates" are those who have not learned to write in any language. This is the definition on which American and most foreign statistics of illiteracy are based, because the percentage of those who can read but can not write is so small that it may be ignored. The test of writing one's name and ordinary words is simple, easily…
Descriptors: Working Class, Immigrants, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy
