International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)

Numeracy proficiency level of person, number

Numeracy proficiency level refers to the extent to which a person has the skills required to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas, in order to engage in and manage the mathematical demands of a range of situations in adult life.

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