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- Literacy_in_the_United_States abstract "Rates of literacy in the United States depend on which of the various definitions of literacy is used. Governments may label as literate those individuals who can read a couple of thousand simple words they learned by sight in the first four grades in school. Other sources may term such individuals functionally illiterate if they are unable to use basic sources of written information like warning labels and driving directions. The World Factbook prepared by the CIA describes the definition of literacy in most countries as \"age 15 and over can read and write.\" The literacy rates are not completely measurable.The Institute of Education Sciences has conducted large scale assessment of adult proficiency in 1992 and 2003 using a common methodology from which trends could be measured. The study measures Prose, Document, and Quantitative skills and 19,000 subjects participated in the 2003 survey. There was no significant change in Prose or Document skills and a slight increase in Quantitative attributes. As in 2008, roughly 15% of the sample could function at the highest levels in all three categories. Roughly 50% were at either basic or below basic levels of proficiency in all three categories. The study identifies a class of adults who, although not meeting criteria for functional illiteracy, face reduced job opportunities and life prospects due to inadequate literacy levels relative to the requirementsreleased in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not \"able to locate information in text\", could not \"make low-level inferences using printed materials\", and were unable to \"integrate easily identifiable pieces of information.\" Further, this study showed that 41% to 44% of U.S. adults in the lowest level on the literacy scale (literacy rate of 35 or below) were living in poverty.A follow-up study by the same group of researchers using a smaller database (19,714 interviewees) was released in 2006 that showed some upward movement of low end (basic and below to intermediate) in U.S. adult literacy levels and a decline in the full proficiency group.Thus, if this bottom quantile of the study is equated with the functionally illiterate, and these are then removed from those classified as literate, then the resultant literacy rate for the United States would be at most 65-85% depending on where in the basic, minimal competence quantile one sets the cutoff.The 15% figure for full literacy, equivalent to a university undergraduate level, is consistent with the notion that the \"average\" American reads at a 7th or 8th grade level which is also consistent with recommendations, guidelines, and norms of readability for medication directions, product information, and popular fiction.".
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- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Central_Connecticut_State_University.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Central_Intelligence_Agency.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Denver.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Functional_illiteracy.
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- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Literacy.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Minneapolis.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Pittsburgh.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Portland,_Oregon.
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- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Readability.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Paul,_Minnesota.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Seattle.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink The_World_Factbook.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLinkText "Literacy in the United States".
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLinkText "literacy rate".
- Literacy_in_the_United_States wikiPageWikiLinkText "literacy".
- Literacy_in_the_United_States date "November 2015".
- Literacy_in_the_United_States reason "as in a probability sample?".
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- Literacy_in_the_United_States subject Category:Education_in_the_United_States.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States subject Category:Literacy.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States type Socioeconomic.
- Literacy_in_the_United_States comment "Rates of literacy in the United States depend on which of the various definitions of literacy is used. Governments may label as literate those individuals who can read a couple of thousand simple words they learned by sight in the first four grades in school. Other sources may term such individuals functionally illiterate if they are unable to use basic sources of written information like warning labels and driving directions.".
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