Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Tables: Adult

Return

Download SE Excel Excel format

(31 KB)

Download Excel Excel format

(38 KB)

Table A16. Difference in mean literacy proficiency score between adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is high school and whose educational attainment is less than high school, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country	Score point difference
United States	48.0
Canada	46.2
Germany	42.2
Chile	42.1
Israel	40.5
Sweden	38.7
Slovak Republic	37.8
Netherlands	37.0
Korea	35.6
France	34.6
Turkey	34.4
Ireland	34.2
Slovenia	33.9
OECD average	33.1
Flanders (Belgium)	32.8
Spain	32.4
Italy	32.2
England (UK)	32.0
Northern Ireland (UK)	31.5
Finland	31.2
New Zealand	30.2
Denmark	29.9
Australia	29.9
Austria	29.2
Poland	27.4
Czech Republic	27.1
Japan	26.7
Estonia	23.1
Norway	20.0
Greece	18.9

NOTE: Proficiency in literacy is scaled between 0 and 500 score points. “Less than high school” corresponds to the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED:97) category "lower than upper secondary" (ISCED:97 levels 0, 1, and 2). “High school” includes high school diplomas and equivalencies and postsecondary education that did not result in a degree; this category corresponds to the ISCED:97 category "upper secondary" (levels 3 and 4). Estimates for Chile, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, Slovenia, and Turkey based on 2015 data, and estimates for all other countries based on 2012 data.
SOURCE: Calculated using estimates in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (2016), Table A3.2 (L).

Return

Download SE Excel Excel format

(31 KB)

Download Excel Excel format

(38 KB)