PIAAC Cycle 1 involved

39

countries and economies

and around

245 000

adults representing over 

1.15 billion

adults worldwide          

The 2nd Cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), continues to assess literacy and numeracy so that countries can track how the skills of the adult population have evolved. The assessment has been updated to better reflect tasks adults must engage in within modern societies, and it now provides more accurate information on low performers. It also includes a new assessment of Adaptive Problem Solving, a new module of the Background Questionnaire assessing the social and emotional skills of respondents, and revised questions to collect richer information on education and training and on features of the working environment related to skills use and development, among others.

The results from the first round of the 2nd Cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills have been released on 10 December 2024.

The OECD is now planning a second round of data collection from 2025 to 2029. Round 2 would be our next opportunity to accommodate new countries into PIAAC Cycle 2.

For queries or more information, please contact the PIAAC team at edu.piaac@oecd.org