International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)

Literacy proficiency level of person, number

Literacy proficiency level refers to the extent to which a person has the skills required to access, understand, evaluate and reflect on written texts in order to achieve one's goals, to develop one's knowledge and potential and to participate in society.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Decimal number