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New methods for Comparing Literacy across Populations: Insights from the Measurement of Poverty

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Denny, K.

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This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that looks at the proportions below certain critical level of literacy. Using methods developed for the measurement of poverty we calculate measures of literacy that are sensitive to the distribution of literacy within those defined as illiterate. This reveals a different pattern of the extent of literacy problems across countries and within some populations.

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Paper provided by College Dublin, Department of Political Economy- in its series Papers with number 00/07.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: POVERTY LITERACY

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I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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  1. John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf, 2006. "Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 2517, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  2. Giorgina Brown & John Micklewright & Sylke V. Schnepf & Robert Waldmann, 2005. "Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?," IZA Discussion Papers 1652, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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