{"id": 998303, "name": "PIAAC Mean Adult Literacy Proficiency. Total", "unit": "score", "createdAt": "2024-11-21T09:09:26.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-04T15:47:13.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2012-2015", "datasetId": 6809, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "piaac__mean_adult_literacy_proficiency__total", "catalogPath": "grapher/wb/2024-11-04/edstats/edstats#piaac__mean_adult_literacy_proficiency__total", "descriptionShort": "Average literacy proficiency of adults aged 16-65.", "descriptionFromProducer": "Literacy is defined as the ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one\u2019s goals, and to develop one\u2019s knowledge and potential. Literacy encompasses a range of skills from the decoding of written words and sentences to the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of complex texts. It does not, however, involve the production of text (writing). Information on the skills of adults with low levels of proficiency is provided by an assessment of reading components that covers text vocabulary, sentence comprehension and passage fluency. The target population for the survey was the non institutionalized population, aged 16-65 years, residing in the country at the time of data collection, irrespective of nationality, citizenship or language status. Literacy-related non-respondents are not included in the calculation of the mean scores which, thus, present an upper bound of the estimated literacy proficiency of the population. For more information, consult the OECD PIAAC website: http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/.\n\nWorld Bank variable id: LO.PIAAC.LIT\n\nOriginal source: OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "11023462317080619544", "metadataChecksum": "7041802742753221699", "datasetName": "World Bank Education Statistics (EdStats)", "updatePeriodDays": 364, "datasetVersion": "2024-11-04", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "score", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Global Education"]}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2012}, {"id": 2015}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 163, "name": "Cyprus", "code": "CYP"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 2043, "title": "World Bank Education Statistics (EdStats)", "description": "The World Bank EdStats database offers a comprehensive array of over 8,000 internationally comparable indicators related to education access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, demographics, and expenditures. It covers the education cycle from pre-primary to vocational and tertiary education, including data on learning outcomes from assessments like PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, equity data from household surveys, and educational projections up to 2050.", "producer": "World Bank", "citationFull": "World Bank Education Statistics (EdStats), World Bank, 2023. Licence: CC BY 4.0.", "attributionShort": "World Bank", "urlMain": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038480/education-statistics", "dateAccessed": "2024-11-04", "datePublished": "2024-10-01", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}