Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table A15. Mean literacy proficiency score among adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is a postsecondary degree, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country	Mean
Japan	313.2
Netherlands	309.9
Finland	308.7
Sweden	304.8
Australia	303.5
Czech Republic	302.1
Flanders (Belgium)	302.0
Norway	300.8
New Zealand	298.7
United States	297.5
Poland	296.9
Austria	295.9
England (UK)	295.6
Northern Ireland (UK)	295.3
Slovak Republic	295.2
France	293.5
Germany	292.9
Denmark	292.2
OECD average	292.1
Ireland	292.0
Korea	290.8
Canada	290.1
Estonia	289.3
Slovenia	285.7
Spain	282.0
Italy	281.3
Israel	275.1
Greece	273.4
Turkey	258.3
Chile	254.0

NOTE: Proficiency in literacy is scaled between 0 and 500 score points. “Postsecondary degree” includes associate’s or higher degrees, and corresponds to the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED:97) category "tertiary" (ISCED:97 levels 5 and 6). 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: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (2016), Table A3.2 (L).

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