Technical Report and Data File User's Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey

In 1992, a nationally representative household survey was conducted to assess the literacy skills of the adult population in the U.S. The results include more than a million responses to the literacy tasks & background questions, providing information that is essential to understanding the nation's literacy resources. Chapters: Overview; Sample Design; Weighting & Population. Estimates; Development of the Survey Instruments; The Household Survey; The Prison Survey; Estimating Literacy Proficiencies w/ & w/o Cognitive Data; Scaling & Proficiency Est.; Evaluation. of Sample Design & Composite Est.; Construct Validity of the Adult Literacy Scales; & Interpreting the Adult Literacy Scales & Literacy Levels. Numerous charts & tables.Kolstad, Andrew is the author of 'Technical Report and Data File User's Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756735746 and ISBN 0756735742.