Countries

For the PIAAC 1st Cycle, 39 countries/economies participated in the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) between 2011-2018. Data was collected in three different rounds.

PIAAC 1st Cycle	Round 1 (2011-2012)	Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom (England and Northern Ireland), United States
	Round 2 (2014-15)	Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Lithuania, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, Turkey
	Round 3 (2017)	Ecuador, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, United States

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What is measured?

In the PIAAC 1st cycle, skills in three domains are measured:

• literacy
• numeracy
• problem solving in technology-rich environments.

To learn more about the skills assessed and design features of the Survey in the 1st Cycle, click here.

To access the data collected in the PIAAC 1st Cycle, click here.

To read results from the PIAAC 1st Cycle, working papers, thematic reports and other publications, click here.