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Table A22. Difference in mean numeracy proficiency score between adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is postsecondary degree and whose educational attainment is high school, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country	Score point difference
United States	45.7
Chile	44.3
France	43.7
Poland	40.4
Israel	39.8
Czech Republic	39.4
Flanders (Belgium)	37.8
Germany	36.9
Slovenia	36.0
Finland	34.3
Norway	31.6
Ireland	31.4
OECD average	31.3
Austria	30.1
Canada	29.8
Korea	29.4
Sweden	29.3
Northern Ireland (UK)	28.7
Greece	28.1
Slovak Republic	27.9
Netherlands	27.2
Japan	27.0
Australia	26.4
Denmark	26.4
England (UK)	25.2
Estonia	24.7
New Zealand	23.9
Spain	23.6
Turkey	23.0
Italy	15.1

NOTE: Proficiency in numeracy 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 (N).

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