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PDF pending restorationNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
Compared to most countries assessed in 1994, the United States had a greater concentration of adults who scored at the lowest literacy levels across prose, document, and quantitative literacy domains. However, it had one of the higher concentrations of adults who scored at or above level 4 on the prose scale. The proportion of adults who scored at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Peer reviewedBraungart, Richard G.; Braungart, Margaret M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1989
Using a data set of 123 countries, the status of youth was analyzed on a global scale. The relative proportions of youth and adult populations and the opportunities nations provided their young people were evaluated. The implications of inter-age and intra-age stratification throughout the world are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Developed Nations
