More specifically the report provides estimates of the level of literacy skill demand by occupation, of literacy skill supply by labour force status and occupation and estimates of the size of literacy skill shortages and surpluses and the costs and benefits of eliminating shortages through instruction provided to various groups of Aboriginal adults with each province and Territory. [...] First, the analyses will serve the needs of firms in the Aboriginal literacy “industry” by providing them with a nuanced portrait of the learning needs and characteristics of different groups of potential learners over the full range of industries and occupations. [...] The following series of figures plot the distribution of prose literacy skill by jurisdiction and then compares the profiles of literacy skill of various Aboriginal sub groups to the jurisdictional average. [...] Rates of literacy skill utilization are presented for the overall population, for the employed population, by the level of literacy demanded by the job and at the individual level. [...] At the Canada level the figure reveals: A surplus of 13,000 employed workers with Level 1 skills A surplus of 11,000 employed workers with Level 2 skills A shortage of 15,000 employed workers with Level 3 skills A shortage of 5,000 employed workers with level 4 skills A shortage of 4,000 employed workers with level 5 skills Figure 6.7 displays literacy skill shortages and surpluses for the same Ba