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Principal investigator: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Distributor: Statistics Canada. Special Surveys Divison, National Literacy Secretariat & Human Resources Development Canada.
SDDS description: <http://www.statcan.ca/english/sdds/4406.htm>

International adult literacy and skills survey (IALSS) international (ALL) file, 2003
• Access data [Restricted]
• Number of respondents: 43,559
• Date created: 2006/10/11
• Date released: 2006/10/27
• Documentation: User guide, record layout, SAS syntax, SPSS syntax
• Jackknife weights:
  • SAS - documentation, see user guide (pages 141-151)
  • SAS stattool, user guide
    
  • SPSS - documentation, see user guide (pages 129-140)
  • SPSS means macro (for continuous variables), (with plausible values)
  • SPSS linear regression macro (without plausible values), (with plausible values)

International adult literacy and skills survey (IALSS) Canada file, 2003
• Access data [Restricted]
• Number of respondents: 23,038
• Date created: 2006/02/14
• Date released: 2007/01/12
• Documentation: User guide, record layout, questionnaires [English, French], syntax files for [SAS, SPSS]
• Jackknife weights:
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  International file, 1994-1996-1998

• Access data [Restricted]
• Number of respondents: 64,175
• Documentation: User guide (PDF format)

  Country	Year of interview	Respondents	Record layout	Questionnaire
  Belgium (Flanders)	1996	2,261	X	X
  Canada (English)	1994	[English] 3,951 [French] 1,709	X	English French
  Chile	1998	3,583	X	X
  Czech Republic	1998	3,132	X	X
  Denmark	1998	3,026	X	X
  Finland	1998	2,928	X	X
  Germany	1994	2,062	X	X
  Hungary	1998	2,593	X	X
  Ireland	1994	2,423	X	X
  Italy	1998	2,974	X	X
  Netherlands	1994	3,090	X	X
  New Zealand	1996	4,223	X	X
  Norway	1998	3,307	X	X
  Poland	1994	3,000	X	X
  Slovenia	1998	2,972	X	X
  Sweden	1994	3,038	X	X
  Switzerland	1994 & 1998	[German] 1,398 [French] 1,440 [Italian] 1,302	X	French German Italian
  United Kingdom	1996	[Great Britain] 3,811 [Norther Ireland] 2.907	X	Great Britain Northern Ireland
  United States	1994	3,045	X	X

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  Canada file, 1994

• Number of respondents: 5,660
• Documentation: User guide (PDF format), Record layout and frequencies, Record layout (Canada),
• Syntax files: SAS control commands, SPSS control commands
• Questionnaires: Canada (English): questionnaire (PDF format) Canada (French): questionnaire (PDF format)

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  International file, 1994-1996

• Number of respondents: 38,358
• Documentation: User guide (PDF format)

  Country	Record layout & frequencies	Questionnaire
  International	X	X
  Belgium	X	X
  Germany	X	X
  Great Britain	X	X
  Ireland	X	X
  Netherlands	X	X
  New Zealand	X	X
  Northern Ireland	X	X
  Poland	X	X
  Sweden	X	X
  Switzerland	French German	French German
  United States	X	X