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Literacy and Numeracy Among Off-reserve First Nations People and Métis

17 May 2016

In 2011, 46% of this article examines the factors and educational outcomes.14 The of Aboriginal people were aged 24 associated with higher literacy analysis on skills as the outcome and under, compared with 30% and numeracy skill levels for off- will be carried out on those aged 25 of the. [...] Literacy refers to understanding of the information- Programme for the International respondents’ ability to understand processing skills of the Aboriginal Assessment of Adult Competencies and use written text both in print population, the relationship between (PIAAC), a large survey on the and e lectronic format,. [...] In the residence, earlier work on the employment outcomes are examined second model, because of the close general Canadian population found for off-reserve First Nations, Métis connection between education and that the proportion with the highest and non-Aboriginal adults aged 25 skills, highest level of education was literacy and numeracy proficiency to 54.28 Specifically, this section added. [...] The survey, which was administered by Statistics Canada from November Skill proficiency levels: Individuals with a level 3 proficiency 2011 to June 2012, was conducted in collaboration with and or higher are those who scored more than 275 (out of 500) with support from Employment and Social Development Canada on the literacy and numeracy assessments, and are defined as (ESDC), the Council of Minis [...] The employment measure used in this paper is defined of enterprises, governments, and other organizations as the population that is currently employed in a job or of organizational units within them, and formulate (equal to 1, while that for the unemployed and inactive and review their policies, laws, rules and regulations”.
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16
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Ottawa

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