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Basic Skills Agency, London (England). – 1997
An international numeracy scale compared how well adults in seven countries--the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia, and Denmark--handled some basic tasks involving numbers. The questionnaire comprised a set of 12 numeracy tasks that respondents were asked to complete using pen and paper. Within each country, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Basic Skills