The 2023 Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), provides a comprehensive overview of adults' literacy, numeracy, and adaptive problem-solving skills – skills that are fundamental for personal, economic, and societal development. These key information-processing skills provide the foundation for access to employment, higher wages and continuous learning, while enabling individuals to navigate the complexities of their personal and civic lives.
The Survey of Adult Skills 2023 Data Analysis Manual constitutes a resource for researchers interested in working with data from the Survey of Adult Skills. It describes the content and the availability of PIAAC datasets, provides guidance on the methodological aspects of the survey that must be taken into account in the analysis, and presents the available statistical softwares and tools that researchers can use.
This Data Analysis Manual is a companion volume to Do adults have the skills they need to thrive in a changing world? Survey of Adult Skills 2023, which reports initial results from the 31 countries and economies that participated in the latest edition of the Survey of Adult Skills and collected data in 2022/23.
