Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
  • Adult learning in context
  • Goals of the report
  • What is ALL?
  • Defining what counts as adult learning
  • Organization of the report
• Chapter 1. International, provincial and territorial comparisons of adult learning
  • 1.1. Participation in organized forms of adult education and training
  • 1.2. Duration of participation in adult education and training
  • 1.3. Direct financial support for adult education and training
  • 1.4. Patterns of informal learning
• Chapter 2. Adult learning: who is being left out?
  • 2.1. Inequalities in organized forms of adult learning
    • 2.1.1. Adult literacy and participation
    • 2.1.2. Education and participation
    • 2.1.3. Parents’ education and participation
    • 2.1.4. Age and participation
    • 2.1.5. Gender and participation
    • 2.1.6. Immigration and participation
  • 2.2. Inequalities in informal learning
  • 2.3. Vulnerable groups
• Chapter 3. Adult learning and the world of work
  • 3.1. Reasons for participating in courses and programmes
  • 3.2. Labour force status and participation in adult education and training
  • 3.3. Impact of job and workplace characteristics on adult learning
  • 3.4. Skill use and participation in adult learning
  • 3.5. Skill match-mismatch and participation in adult learning
• Conclusions
  • Overview of main findings
  • Discussion
• References
• Annex A Data values for the charts
• Annex B Supplementary data tables
• Note