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de Coulon, Augustin; Meschi, Elena; Vignoles, Anna – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
A large proportion of the UK adult population has very poor literacy and/or numeracy skills (see the 1999 Moser Report, the 2003 "Skills for Life" Survey and the 2006 Leitch report). In 1999, the Moser report found that approximately 20% of adults in England had severe literacy difficulties, whilst around 40% had some numeracy problems.…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Economically Disadvantaged, Numeracy, Cognitive Tests