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Brown, Helen; And Others – 1996
The 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) examined three types of literacy--prose, document, and quantitative--among the entire older adult population and various subgroups thereof. Of the nationally representative sample of 26,091 adults interviewed during the NALS, 2,267 were aged 60-69, 1,005 were aged 70-79, and 442 were at least 80 years…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Participation, Economic Status
