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NALS 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Among Adults Who Read the Newspaper at Least Once a Week, Percentages Who Read Certain Parts, by Literacy Level PROSE DOCUMENT QUANTITATIVE Level News, editorials, financial Level News, editorials, financial Level News, editorials, financial 1 2 3 4 5 92 95 97 99 100 1 2 3 4 5 93 96 97 98 99 1 2 3 4 5 Home, fashion, reviews 48 47 48 50 53 74 80 83 86 86 Classified ads, listings Classified ads, listings Classified ads, listings 66 72 72 71 69 84 88 87 83 76 Comics, advice, horoscope Comics, advice, horoscope Comics, advice, horoscope Sports Sports Sports 0 20 40 60 80 100 Level 1 0 to 225 Level 2 226 to 275 Level 3 276 to 325 Level 4 326 to 375 Level 5 376 to 500 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Home, fashion, reviews Home, fashion, reviews 47 47 49 51 53 67 73 71 72 70 81 83 85 85 84 88 87 83 78 0 20 40 60 80 100 Percentage in Each Level Who Read Each Part of the Newspaper Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Adult Literacy Survey, 1992. average document and quantitative performance between those who choose to read the sports pages and those who do not. While on the quantitative scale the proficiency gap is 8 points, on the document scale it is only 3 points. On the prose scale, the 2-point difference between sports page readers and nonreaders is not statistically significant. Once again, these results can be better understood by reexamining the differences across the literacy levels in the percentages of newspaper readers who reported choosing the sports pages, particularly for the quantitative scale. In this dimension of literacy, readers in the lowest level (45 percent) were considerably less likely than those in the highest level (58 percent) to say they generally read this section. On the other hand, there were relatively small differences (of 5 to 6 points) across the prose 76 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 45 46 49 53 Figure 2.3 0 20 40 60 80 100 58 77 68 73 72 70 67 82 82 83 83 84 88 88 83 77 93 95 97 98 99 Section II ......57
NALS Among Adults Who Read the Newspaper at Least Once a Week, Average Literacy Proficiencies, by Newspaper Reading Practices 58 ......Section II Average Prose Proficiency Average Document Proficiency Average Quantitative Proficiency Yes No Yes No Yes No News, editorials, financial 282 248 276 248 281 250 Home, fashion, reviews 284 267 277 264 282 271 Classified ads, listings 280 282 274 274 280 282 Comics, advice, horoscope 282 277 276 271 280 279 Sports 282 280 276 273 284 276 Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Adult Literacy Survey, 1992. and document literacy levels in the percentages of adults who said they generally read this section. The home, fashion, health, and reviews sections typically consist of connected prose with some illustrations and tables. Newspaper readers who performed in the higher levels on each scale were more likely to report that they read these sections, while those in the lowest level were more likely to report skipping them. The differences were greatest on the prose scale, and this is reflected in the average proficiency results: The average prose scores of newspaper readers who generally read these sections were considerably higher (284 compared with 267) than those of readers who said they tend to skip them. Different patterns are evident for the other aspects of newspaper reading. On each scale, the percentages of newspaper readers who said they generally look at the classified ads and listings varied across the literacy levels, rising from 84 percent of those in Level 1 to 88 percent in Level 2 before declining to some three-quarters of the respondents in Level 5. Yet there are no significant differences in average prose, document, or quantitative proficiency between newspaper readers who said they generally read these sections and those who do not. In contrast, newspaper readers who reported that they generally read the comics, horoscopes, or advice columns demonstrated average prose and document proficiencies that were slightly (5 points) higher than those of Table 2.1
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ADULT LITERACY in America A First L
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U.S. Department of Education Richar
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iv ......Contents Section II: The C
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vi ......Contents Figures and Table
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viii ......Contents Table 3.1: Perc
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Our thanks go to all those who carr
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xii ......Preface the last decade
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xiv ......Preface During the first
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adults received proficiency scores
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• The literacy proficiencies of y
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• Adults in the lowest level on e
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Historians remind us that during th
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xxii ......Executive Summary
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2 ......Introduction The plan for d
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4 ......Introduction embedded in pr
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Page 37 and 38: About This Report This report is wr
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Page 41 and 42: 16 ......Section I are more challen
Page 43 and 44: NALS Percentages of Adults with Sel
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Page 49 and 50: NALS Average Literacy Proficiencies
Page 51 and 52: Percentage in Level Percentage in L
Page 53 and 54: Results by Parents’ Level of Educ
Page 55 and 56: Results by Age 30 ......Section I T
Page 57 and 58: NALS Average Years of Schooling, by
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Page 61 and 62: NALS PROSE Average Proficiency Aver
Page 63 and 64: Age and Racial/Ethnic Differences 3
Page 65 and 66: Country of Birth and Racial/Ethnic
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Page 69 and 70: Percentage in Level Percentage in L
Page 71 and 72: Results by Region Results by Sex 46
Page 73 and 74: NALS Percentages of Adults Born in
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Page 79 and 80: NALS Percentages of Adults Who Vote
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Page 91 and 92: NALS Median Weekly Wages, by Litera
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Table 3.4: Percentages and average
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Administering the Data Collection I
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Data Entry 126 ......Appendix A The
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Employment Status Respondents were
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RACE/ETHNICITY TABLE 1.10 Average P
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CENSUS REGION TABLE 1.11 Average Pr
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DISABILITIES Physical, Mental, Heal
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