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Table A17. Difference in mean literacy proficiency score between adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is a postsecondary degree and whose educational attainment is high school, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country	Score point difference
Poland	42.4
United States	38.7
Flanders (Belgium)	36.9
France	35.3
Chile	35.0
Slovenia	34.2
Israel	33.9
Czech Republic	33.2
Finland	32.6
Germany	31.2
Norway	29.5
Sweden	28.2
Austria	27.9
OECD average	27.9
Denmark	27.8
Netherlands	26.8
Japan	26.5
Ireland	25.8
Korea	25.6
Australia	25.2
Northern Ireland (UK)	25.2
Canada	25.1
Spain	24.4
Estonia	22.4
England (UK)	22.3
New Zealand	21.2
Slovak Republic	19.8
Greece	19.5
Italy	18.3
Turkey	13.7

NOTE: Proficiency in literacy is scaled between 0 and 500 score points. “High school” includes high school diplomas and equivalencies and postsecondary education that did not result in a degree; this category corresponds to the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED:97) category "upper secondary" (ISCED:97 levels 3 and 4). “Postsecondary degree” includes associate’s or higher degrees, and corresponds to the ISCED:97 category "tertiary" (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: 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).

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