The IALS collected a broad range of information about the literacy practices and other daily activities of the respondents and provided new insights into the differences in the distribution of literacy within and among participating countries. This article discusses literacy practices at work and in the community.
Bar charts show the overall frequency for each literacy activity across the participating countries.
Within each section, the relationship between literacy level and both literacy activity and occupation is briefly discussed. In general, there are differences among the countries in the frequencies reported for the different literacy tasks, but these differences are mostly consistent from task to task. Swedish respondents almost always reported the most frequent use of literacy tasks at work and Polish respondents the least frequent. These differences reflect the countries' different occupational distributions. Literacy at Work Reading .