Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey (OECD), 1997.

"Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey (OECD), 1997", is a part of an international research project (SIALS - Second international Adult Literacy Survey) on adult literacy carried out in 10 countries. The project aims to map out the level of literacy i the adult population between 16 and 65 years old. In addition to this project, corresponding research was done in 12 countries during the first survey (IALS). The reason for starting up these projects were a bigger focus on adult literacy as an important factor for economic development in industrian countries.

IALS and SIALS aims to:
- contribute with knowledge on the allocation of adult literacy in each country
- focus on adult literacy and their significance for macroeconomics
- give a possibility to compare adult literacy in different countries

Two surveys were carried out in Norway, one in each language form; bokmål and nynorsk. These were carried out as two separate surveys in two samples of the population, which means that the respondents did not get the opportunity to choose the language form to do the survey. Therefore the surveys measures adult literacy according to a given language form, and not necessarily the language form that the respondent is most comfortable with. This dataset consists of data from the Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey 1997, on Bokmål.

The survey is rescaling to be comparable with: Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).