Note on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) Literacy Scales

The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) employs a five-point scale to assess adults’ literacy skills. The skills associated with each level of the scale are described below.

Source: Statistics Canada and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Learning a Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (Ottawa: Statistics Canada; Paris: OECD, 2005), 17–18, table I.1.

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