Summary information

Study title

Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey, 1997.

Creator

Statistics Norway

Study number / PID

https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD0701-2-V2 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

The Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey 1997, is a part of an international research project (SIALS - Second International Adult Literacy Survey) on adult literacy carried out in 10 countries. The project aims to map out the level of adult literacy in the population between 16 - 65 years old. In addition to this project, corresponding research was done in 12 countries during the first survey (IALS). The reason for starting up these projects was a bigger focus on adult literacy as an important factor for economic development in industrian countries. IALS and SIALS aims to: - contribute with knowledge on the allocation of adult literacy in each country - focus on adult literacy and their significance for macroeconomics - give a possibility to compare levels of adult literacy Two surveys were carried out in Norway, one in each language form; bokmål and nynorsk. These were carried out as two separate surveys in two samples of the population, which means that the respondents did not get the opportunity to choose the language form of the survey. Therefore the surveys measure adult literacy according to a given language form, and not necessarily the language form that the respondent is most comfortable with. The surveys consist of background interviews and two reading tasks. This dataset consists of data from the Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey 1997, on nynorsk.

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Methodology

Data collection period

01/05/1998 - 01/09/1998

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

The Norwegian adult population between 16 and 65 years old.

Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

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Funding information

Funder

NAV

Funder

Ministry of Education and Research

Funder

Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation

Funder

Ministry of Education and Research

Funder

Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation

Access

Publisher

Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

Publication year

2023-06-27T00:00:00

Terms of data access

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Related publications

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