Hello all,
 
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) just released Literacy  
in Everyday Life, the most recent publication of the 2003 National Assessment 
of  Adult Literacy (NAAL).  This report provides extensive information on the  
literacy of American adults age 16 and older and changes in their performance  
since 1992.  Furthermore, it examines the relationship between literacy and  
several demographic variables including education,
occupation, and  income.

Findings include the following:

*  Women have  closed the gap with men in Quantitative literacy. They are 
doing better than men  in Document and Prose literacy. 

*  Younger and older adults  have lower literacy than adults in other age 
groups.   

*  Median weekly earnings increased with each level of  literacy. 
*  At each higher level of Prose literacy, more adults  were employed full 
time.  

*  Approximately 51 percent of  adults with Below Basic Document literacy and 
43 percent with Below Basic  Quantitative literacy believed their job 
opportunities were limited a lot by  their lack of computer skills.

*  The percentage of parents who  never helped their school-age child with 
homework declined at each higher Prose  literacy level. 
*  Approximately half of US citizens of voting age  with Below Basic Prose 
and Document literacy reported voting in the presidential  election of 2000 
compared with 84 percent of citizens with Proficient Prose and  Document literacy. 

To download, view and print the publication as a PDF  file, please visit:

_http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007480_ 
(http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007480)   



Jaleh Behroozi Soroui

Education Statistics Services  Institute 

American Institutes for Research 

1990 K Street, NW  Suite 500 

Washington, DC 20006

Phone: 202/403-6958

email:  _jsoroui at air.org_ (mailto:jsoroui at air.org)   




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