Adult Literacy in America - National Center for Education Statistics ...

Data Tables
Table 1.1A Average Prose Proficiency and Literacy Levels by Total
Population, Gender, Census Region, and Race/Ethnicity . . . . . . . . 139
Table 1.1B Average Document Proficiency and Literacy Levels by Total
Population, Gender, Census Region, and Race/Ethnicity . . . . . . . . 140
Table 1.1C Average Quantitative Proficiency and Literacy Levels by Total
Population, Gender, Census Region, and Race/Ethnicity . . . . . . . . 141
Table 1.2A Average Prose Proficiency and Literacy Levels
by Education Level and Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Table 1.2B Average Document Proficiency and
Literacy Levels by Education Level and Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Table 1.2C Average Quantitative Proficiency and
Literacy Levels by Education Level and Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Table 1.3A Characteristics of Respondents by Prose Literacy Levels . . . . . . . . 145
Table 1.3B Characteristics of Respondents by Document Literacy Levels . . . 146
Table 1.3C Characteristics of Respondents by Quantitative Literacy Levels . . 147
Table 1.4A Average Prose Proficiency and Literacy Levels
Incarcerated Sample by Total, Education Level, and Age . . . . . . . 148
Table 1.4B Average Document Proficiency and Literacy Levels
Incarcerated Sample by Total, Education Level, and Age . . . . . . . 149
Table 1.4C Average Quantitative Proficiency and Literacy Levels
Incarcerated Sample by Total, Education Level, and Age . . . . . . . 150
Table 1.5 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
for the 1985 YALS and 1992 NALS Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Table 1.6 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
Respondents’ Education Level by Parents’ Education Level . . . . . 152
Table 1.7 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
Education Level by Race/Ethnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Table 1.8 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
Age by Race/Ethnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Table 1.9A Average Years of Schooling by Age,
Race/Ethnicity, and Census Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Table 1.9B Difference in Average Proficiencies and in
Average Years of Schooling, by Race/Ethnicity and Age . . . . . . . . . 157
Table 1.10 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
Race/Ethnicity by Country of Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Table 1.11 Average Proficiency on Each Literacy Scale
Census Region by Country of Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
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