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The 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) survey was designed to measure the distribution of literacy and numeracy skills among the adult population of New Zealand. The ALL survey included an oversample of Pasifika adults. This design feature has allowed meaningful insights into the distribution of literacy and numeracy skills among the adult Pasifika population of New Zealand. This report describes the distributions of prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skill among the adult Pasifika population of New Zealand in 2006. In particular, this report describes the relationship between distributions of these skills and each of the factors: age; gender; labour force status; educational attainment; language most frequently spoken when at home; first language; place of birth; and income.