Table of Contents

• Overview of the study
• Definitions of skill
  
• Measurement of skills
  

• Data collection
• Organization of the report

• 1.1  Goals of the ALL survey
• 1.2  The conceptual approach to the ALL survey

Chapter 2
Comparative Profiles of Adult Skills

• 2.1  Overview and highlights
• 2.2  Comparative distributions of adult skills
• 2.3  Changes in skills profiles from IALS to ALL
• 2.4  Adult skills and age
• 2.5  Adult skills and gender

• 3.1  Overview and highlights
• 3.2  The relationship between education and cognitive skills
• 3.3  Skills of upper secondary graduates
• 3.4  Skills of post-secondary graduates

Chapter 4
Skills and Adult Learning

• 4.1  Overview and highlights
• 4.2  Participation in organised forms of adult education and training
• 4.3  Who is excluded from adult learning opportunities?
• 4.4  Patterns of informal learning
• 4.5  Financial support for adult learning