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Survey of Adult SkillsReader’s Companion OECD Skills Studies Survey of Adult SkillsReader’s Companion This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed andarguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Member countries of the OECD. This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty overany territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use ofsuch data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements inthe West Bank under the terms of international law. ISBN 978-92-64-93676-8 (print)ISBN 978-92-64-97332-9 (PDF)ISBN 978-92-64-43359-5 (HTML) OECD Skills StudiesISSN 2307-8723 (print)ISSN 2307-8731 (online) Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/support/corrigenda.html.© OECD 2024 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. By using this work, you accept to be bound by the terms of this licence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Attribution– you must cite the work.Translations– you must cite the original work, identify changes to the original and add the following text:In the event of any discrepancy between the original work and thetranslation, only the text of original work should be considered valid.Adaptations– you must cite the original work and add the following text:This is an adaptation of an original work by the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed inthis adaptation should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its Member countries.Third-party material– the licence does not apply to third-party material in the work. If using such material, you are responsible for obtaining permission from the third party and forany claims of infringement.You must not use the OECD logo, visual identity or cover image without express permission or suggest the OECD endorses your use of the work.Any dispute arising under this licence shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Arbitration Rules 2012. The seat of arbitration shallbe Paris (France). The number of arbitrators shall be one. Foreword This volume is a companion toDoAdultsHave theSkillsTheyNeed toThrive in aChangingWorld? Surveyof Adult Skills 2023, which presents results from the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills. This volume offers an overview of the “what” and “how” of the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills, a product of theProgramme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Its primary objective is tohelp readers understand and interpret the results of the survey. To this end, it summarises, in less technicalways, the methodologies underpinning the design of the survey and its operational aspects. A morecomprehensive and technicallyoriented presentation of the methodological aspects of the survey and itsimplementation can be found in theSurvey of Adult Skills 2023 Technical Report (forthcoming). This Reader’s Companion addresses four topics: •what the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills measures•how the results from the survey are reported•how the survey was designed and implemented•how the 2023 Survey of Adult Skills is related to previous adult skills surveys and to the OECDProgramme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Chapter 1discusses the concept of human capital and the extent to which the Survey of Adult Skills canbe used to improve the measurement of some of its components. Chapter 2 describes the approachadopted in the survey to measure three key information-processing skills: literacy, numeracy and adaptiveproblem solving. An important goal of the survey is to identify differences in proficiency between differentsub-groups of the population, to better understand how skills are developed, maintained and used, and toanalyse how skills impact adults’ life chances. These insights are possible because the survey includes anextensive background questionnaire, whose content is presented in Chapter 4, together with a discussionof the rationale behind its design. Results of the Survey of Adult Skills are disseminated by reporting average proficiency scores in literacy,numeracy and adaptive problem solving, or the share of adults scoring at different levels of proficiency.But what exactly does it mean to have a particular score or to be at a particular level of proficiency?Chapter3 provides an answer to these questions, describing in particular what adults with a given score(or at a given level of proficiency) can be expected to be able to do. To correctly interpret the results from the Survey of A