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Table A37. Mean literacy and numeracy proficiency score among U.S. adults ages 16-65, by current labor force status, educational attainment of employed adults, and occupational field of employed adults: 2012/2014
| Current labor force status, educational attainment, and occupational field | Mean literacy proficiency |
Mean numeracy proficiency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 271.7 | 257.2 | ||||||
| Current labor force status | ||||||||
| Employed | 277.0 | 264.1 | ||||||
| Unemployed | 258.8 | 237.7 | ||||||
| Out of the labor force | 256.5 | 238.2 | ||||||
| Educational attainment of employed adults | ||||||||
| Less than high school | 223.2 | 210.6 | ||||||
| High school, no postsecondary degree | 267.0 | 251.8 | ||||||
| Associate's degree | 285.6 | 270.4 | ||||||
| Bachelor's degree | 302.9 | 293.3 | ||||||
| Graduate or professional degree | 312.0 | 304.3 | ||||||
| Occupational field of employed adults | ||||||||
| Armed forces | ‡ | ‡ | ||||||
| Legislators, senior officials and managers | 296.0 | 289.1 | ||||||
| Professionals | 304.5 | 293.3 | ||||||
| Technicians and associate professionals | 284.1 | 268.8 | ||||||
| Clerks | 279.1 | 259.6 | ||||||
| Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 262.9 | 245.6 | ||||||
| Skilled agricultural and fishery workers | ‡ | ‡ | ||||||
| Craft and related trades workers | 261.7 | 254.2 | ||||||
| Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 247.3 | 237.8 | ||||||
| Elementary occupations1 | 242.9 | 230.1 | ||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | ||||||||
| 1 Occupations coded using the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO). "Elementary occupations" include agricultural labor, construction, mining, transportation, food preparation assistance, cleaning, domestic help, and other routine manual labor. | ||||
| NOTE: Proficiency in literacy and numeracy are scaled between 0 and 500 score points. Literacy and numeracy proficiency scores cannot be compared directly because each domain has a distinct framework, construct, set of items, and scale. Estimates based on U.S. combined data from 2012 and 2014. | ||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), U.S. PIAAC 2012/2014. |
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