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Improving literacy improves people’s lives—research shows that people in Canada with higher levels of literacy, numeracy, digital technology, and problem-solving skills enjoy a better quality of life and stronger connections with their environments.
- Why Are Literacy Skills Important?
- How Are Literacy Skills Measured?
- How Do Canada and The Provinces Rank Relative to International Peers?
- How Do The Provinces Perform Relative to Each other?
- How Do Immigrants Perform on The Literacy Test?
- How Do Aboriginal People Fare on The Literacy Test?
- Have High-Level Literacy Rates Changed Over time?
- Footnotes
Literacy skills—along with numeracy skills and problem-solving skillsin a technology-rich environment—affect both economic and social well-being. Given the centrality of written communication and basic mathematics in virtually all areas of life, coupled with the rapid integration of ICT [information and communications technology], individuals must ...
For the purposes of the PIAAC, literacy skills are defined as “the ability to understand, evaluate, use, and engage with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.”5 This requires “accessing, identifying, and processing information from a variety of texts that relate to a range of ...
Overall, Canada earns a “C” grade on the share of adults with inadequate literacy skills in the latest international comparison study. Forty-eight per cent of Canadian adults are considered to have inadequate literacy skills. This total includes 31.7 per cent at level 2, 12.6 per cent at level 1, and 3.8 per cent of the adult population scoring bel...
In addition to ranking the provinces against Canada’s international peers, the provinces have been compared with each other and placed into three categories: “above average,” “average,” and “below average.” 8 The results are mixed. Alberta and P.E.I. are above-average performers, while Newfoundland and Labrador, with nearly 60 per cent of adults wi...
Canada has a diverse population. According to data from the 2011 National Household Survey, 22 per cent of the population aged 16–65 are immigrants.9 Immigrants are not evenly dispersed across the country. Eighty-five per cent of all immigrants to Canada live in three provinces: Ontario (53.3 per cent), British Columbia (17.6 per cent), and Quebec ...
The Aboriginal population in Canada is growing. In 2011, 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population identified as Aboriginal on the National Household Survey, up from 3.3 per cent in 2001.11 About 61 per cent of Aboriginal people identified as First Nations (with about half of those individuals living on reserves), 32 per cent identified as Métis only...
International comparisons of adult literacy skills have been conducted from time to time over the past two decades. Unfortunately, a direct comparison among the results is not possible for a number of reasons, including the fact that the concept of literacy has changed to reflect the new reality of digital texts.16 However, Statistics Canada re-est...
1 Statistics Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, and Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, Skills in Canada: First Results From the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, Catalogue no. 89-555-X (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2013), 5. 2 Alison Campbell, What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Literacy’s Impact o...
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Four out of ten Canadian adults have literacy skills too low to be fully competent in most jobs in our modern economy. Canadian adults with low literacy skills have fewer opportunities than young Canadians to upgrade their skills because they are outside the mainstream education system.
Sources: Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) (2012, 2015), International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL). Text description of Figure 1. More specifically, in Canada: Four out of ten adults lack sufficient levels of literacy to be fully competent in most jobs.
A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness in the global economy. Yet, more than 90 million U.S. adults lack adequate literacy.
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Adult Learning in Canada: A Comparative Perspective Introduction Adult learning in context OECD’s thematic review of adult learning policies and practices in 17 OECD countries found a growing recognition by policy makers of the necessity to invest in adult learning to achieve economic efficiency and address equity deficiencies (OECD, 2005a, p ...
