Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey, 1997.

The Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey 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 adult literacy in the population between 16 - 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 was 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 levels of adult literacy

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 of the survey. Therefore the surveys measure adult literacy according to a given language form, and not necessarily the language form that the respondent is most comfortable with. The surveys consist of background interviews and two reading tasks. This dataset consists of data from the Norwegian Adult Literacy Survey 1997, on nynorsk.