Text table 1.3
| Yukon | British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan |
Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island |
Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador |
Nunavut | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent below level 3 | ||||||
| Prose | 10.5 | 13.5 to 17.3 | 17.3 to 21.3 | 22.3 to 24.0 | 47.2 | 19.9 |
| Document | 10.8 | 14.6 to 17.4 | 19.2 to 22.7 | 25.1 to 26.5 | 46.9 | 21.5 |
| Numeracy | 15.7 | 19.7 to 21.4 | 25.0 to 27.0 | 27.6 to 32.0 | 55.7 | 25.5 |
Source: International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey, 2003.
Finally, over 73 percent of adult population in Nunavut performs belowLevel3, likely in large part a reflection of the languages of the IALSS assessment.
Individuals who score at Level 1 on the proficiency scales have very limited abilities to locate, understand and use information, or to do simple, one-step numerical operations. Overall, the proportion of Canadian adults who score at this level isabout 20 percent on both the prose and document literacy scales, about 25 percenton the numeracy scale and about 36 percent on the problem solving scale (Table 1.3).
Again, the proportions are the lowest in the Yukon and the highest in Nunavut. British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan had proportions lower than the Canadian average, and Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labradorhad proportions above average.
The next chapters provide insight into the factors associated with these scores.