DATASET

Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012 U.S. Public Use File (PUF)

Dataset point of contact:
Steven Holtzman, John Barone, Lin Li, Tom Krenzke, Jacquie Hogan, Leyla Mohadjer, Ralph Carstens, and Tim Daniel.
Release date:
May 2014
Publication number:
NCES 2014045REV
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Summary
The PIAAC U.S. PUF contains individual unit record data including both responses to the background questionnaire and the cognitive assessment from the original U.S. PIAAC data collection completed in 2012. Statistical disclosure control treatments were applied due to confidentiality concerns. For more details on the PUF, please refer to Appendix J of the U.S. PIAAC Technical Report (NCES 2014-047).

Important notes to users:
  1. These original 2012 data have been updated, reweighted, and revised with the release of the PIAAC 2012/2014 dataset (NCES 2016-667). That dataset should be used for analyses instead of this original version unless you are seeking to reproduce historic analyses.
  2. The OECD identified an error in the derivation of the following variables in the PIAAC original 2012 data files: NFE12JR, NFE12NJR, FNFE12JR, FNFAET12JR and FNFAET12NJR. NCES released revised U.S. public-use and restricted-use files, the background compendia, and the codebook on August 18, 2015. The revised public-use files are available below. IDE (International Data Explorer) was updated with the revised datafile on March 27, 2015. If you have any questions, please contact: holly.xie@ed.gov.


Revision Release: August 2015

Online Availability

Data profile information
Metadata Description
Study/Program
International Activities Program,
PIAAC - Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Data classifications
Cross-sectional data,
Sample data
Data weighted
Yes
Data part of a series
Yes
Data access Public-use