by vellebelle | Dec 1, 2022 | News
The Nordic and Baltic countries started the data collection for the main study of PIAAC in the autumn of 2022. In the main survey, each country is required to collect at least 4 000 interviews in the period between August 2022 and April 2023. The actual number of...
by vellebelle | Dec 7, 2021 | News
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a survey measuring skills in literacy, numeracy and problem solving among the adult population. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Latvia form the Nordic-Baltic PIAAC network....
by vellebelle | Dec 6, 2021 | News
The Nordic and Baltic countries have successfully conducted the PIAAC Field Test (FT) between May and September 2021. PIAAC is a complex survey being conducted in 33 countries. The main purpose of the FT is to test the technical infrastructure, the background...
by vellebelle | Oct 24, 2016 | Publications
Author: Anders Rosdahl Adults with low skills Levels 0 to 1 People with low skills in respectively literacy and numeracy are defined as those who are at level 0 and 1. These people score less than 226 points at the scale of literacy and numeracy respectively, a scale...
by vellebelle | Oct 6, 2016 | Publications
Author: Anders Rosdahl In this article, the Danish sociologist Anders Rosdahl presents main findings from PIAAC cycle 1. The article presents skills in the Nordic countries in a comparative perspective and focuses on the uneven distribution of skills with regard to...
