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Title:	Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies, 2009
Keywords:	ADULTS LITERACY GENDER ABILITY EVALUATION ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AGE APTITUDE TESTS ARITHMETIC ARTICLES BOOK READERSHIP BOOKS CARE OF DEPENDANTS CHILDREN COMPUTERS CONCERT GOING CORRESPONDENCE DIAGRAMS DICTIONARIES DISABILITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATES EDUCATIONAL GRANTS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYEES EMPLOYER-SPONSORED TRAINING EMPLOYERS EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES ENCYCLOPAEDIAS ETHNIC GROUPS FATHERS FATHER'S EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND PREDOMINANT LANGUAGES FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEARING IMPAIRMENTS HOUSEHOLDS ILLITERACY IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION INCOME INDUSTRIES INFORMATION MATERIALS INFORMATION USE INTEREST (FINANCE) INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE LANGUAGE SKILLS LANGUAGES LEARNING DISABILITIES LIBRARY USERS LISTENING RADIO LISTENING MARITAL STATUS MATHEMATICS MASS MEDIA USE MOTHER TONGUE MOTHERS MOTHER'S EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND NATIONALITY NEWSPAPER READERSHIP NEWSPAPERS NUMERACY OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING OCCUPATIONS PARENTS PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT PERIODICALS PERIODICALS READERSHIP PLACE OF BIRTH PRIMARY DOCUMENTS PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC LIBRARIES QUALIFICATIONS READING (ACTIVITY) READING SKILLS READING TESTS REPORTS RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY SECOND LANGUAGES SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS SPEECH IMPAIRMENTS SPORT SPECTATORSHIP TELEVISION VIEWING TRAINING TRAINING COURSES VISION IMPAIRMENTS WAGES HOURS OF WORK WRITING SKILLS PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION ENGLISH (LANGUAGE) LANGUAGES USED AT HOME LANGUAGES USED AT WORK TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT WRITING (COMPOSITION) PARENT-TEACHER RELATIONSHIP CULTURAL PARTICIPATION 2009 Scotland
Description:	<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P> The aim of the <i>Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies, 2009</i> (SSAL2009) was to update existing data on working age (16-65 year old) adults’ literacies skills, and to provide a new baseline estimate of the general population’s levels of literacies skills in Scotland. This included an assessment of skills on three literacies scales; prose, document and quantitative literacy. The aim of the survey also included exploring patterns of literacies skills and analysing these skills in relation to respondents’ social backgrounds. The sampling strategy ensures a high degree of representativeness and allows in-depth discussion of issues such as gender, social class, urbanisation and work.<br> <br> SSAL2009 is based on the <i>International Adult Literacy Survey</i> (IALS) carried out in 1996 as part of an international programme of surveys. The Great British part of this survey is available from the UK Data Archive under SN 3791 - <i> Adult Literacy in Britain, 1996</i>.<br> <B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> The dataset contains a wide variety of social background data, including gender, age, languages spoken, educational background, highest qualification, employment status, length of unemployment, type of jobs/sectors people are employed in, training people have undertaken the last year, health/disability, benefits, income levels, regions where people live (urban/rural), and level of deprivation (using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)). <br> <br> The dataset also contains the results from the literacies assessment in prose, document and quantitative literacy using Item Response Theory (ITR) modelling and plausible values.<br> <br> In terms of plausible values these are estimates of a potential value for each individual’s ability. There are 5 of them. The plausible values give proficiency estimates on a scale between 0 and 500, and are included in the data set. These are essential in understanding and analysing the literacies levels of adults in Scotland. The plausible values relate to IALS levels as follows:<br> <br> Level 1: 0 to 225 <br> Level 2: 226 to 275<br> Level 3: 276 to 325<br> Level 4: 326 to 375<br> Level 5: 376 to 500.
URI:	https://t2-4.bsc.es/jspui/handle/123456789/63289
Other Identifiers:	10.5255/UKDA-SN-6753-1 6753 http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-6753-1
Appears in Collections:	Cessda

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