TABLE 10

Percent of native-born and second-language foreign-born1 population aged 16-65 at each prose, document and quantitative literacy level, 1994-1998

  Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Level 4/5  
  A. Prose
Poland                
Native-born 42.3 (0.8) 34.7 (0.9) 20.0 (0.7) 3.1 (0.3)
Second-language foreign-born 69.7* (11.3) 30.3* (11.3) 0.0* (0.0) 0.0* (0.0)
Switzerland                
Native-born 10.2 (0.7) 38.2 (1.3) 41.4 (1.0) 10.1 (0.7)
Second-language foreign-born 64.6 (1.9) 18.6 (1.9) 14.3 (1.7) 2.4* (1.0)
United States                
Native-born 14.0 (0.8) 27.3 (1.3) 35.0 (1.4) 23.7 (1.2)
Second-language foreign-born 63.7 (2.4) 17.0 (1.7) 13.5 (2.1) 5.9* (2.3)
Hungary                
Native-born 33.9 (1.0) 42.8 (1.4) 20.7 (1.0) 2.6 (0.5)
Second-language foreign-born 60.6* (36.0) 39.4* (36.0) 0.0* (0.0) 0.0* (0.0)
Slovenia                
Native-born 40.9 (1.2) 35.0 (1.1) 20.9 (1.0) 3.2 (0.3)
Second-language foreign-born 59.8 (3.6) 28.2 (3.5) 10.3* (2.1) 1.8* (1.0)
Belgium (Flanders)                
Native-born 17.6 (1.6) 28.0 (2.3) 39.7 (2.6) 14.8 (1.1)
Second-language foreign-born 59.3* (10.5) 30.7* (11.1) 10.0* (4.8) 0.0* (0.0)
Average                
Native-born 19.9 (0.4) 30.2 (0.5) 33.4 (0.6) 16.5 (0.5)
Second-language foreign-born 57.3 (1.5) 21.3 (1.1) 15.7 (1.4) 5.8 (1.2)
United Kingdom                
Native-born 20.2 (0.8) 30.9 (1.3) 31.9 (1.1) 17.0 (0.8)
Second-language foreign-born 52.4 (7.1) 26.1 (4.4) 16.5 (5.4) 5.0* (2.1)
Australia                
Native-born 11.7 (0.5) 27.5 (0.7) 39.9 (0.7) 21.0 (0.6)
Second-language foreign-born 51.4 (1.9) 24.1 (1.6) 18.6 (1.7) 5.8 (0.8)
Canada                
Native-born 12.9 (0.9) 26.4 (2.5) 38.9 (2.3) 21.8 (1.6)
Second-language foreign-born 50.7 (6.9) 25.9 (6.4) 14.4 (8.4) 8.9* (2.4)
New Zealand                
Native-born 16.1 (1.2) 27.6 (1.3) 36.3 (1.1) 20.0 (0.8)
Second-language foreign-born 50.2 (4.3) 24.5 (3.2) 18.2 (3.0) 7.1* (2.1)
Denmark                
Native-born 9.3 (0.5) 36.4 (0.9) 47.8 (1.0) 6.5 (0.4)
Second-language foreign-born 46.2* (11.2) 25.6* (11.1) 25.2* (9.3) 3.0* (3.2)
Portugal                
Native-born 48.4 (2.0) 28.9 (2.3) 18.3 (1.3) 4.4 (0.5)
Second-language foreign-born 44.4* (31.6) 40.3* (24.1) 12.8* (8.3) 2.5* (2.9)
Germany                
Native-born 12.3 (0.9) 34.3 (1.2) 39.1 (1.4) 14.2 (1.0)
Second-language foreign-born 41.0 (4.3) 30.2 (4.6) 24.7* (4.2) 4.0* (2.7)
Finland                
Native-born 10.0 (0.5) 26.3 (0.7) 41.3 (0.7) 22.3 (0.6)
Second-language foreign-born 39.3* (7.6) 28.7* (6.7) 26.8* (6.2) 5.3* (3.8)