Using the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies direct measures of skills in the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults

In this paper, [the author demonstrates] the use of the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) direct measures of skills that are available in the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) data. The PIAAC direct measures of skills are available in the LISA data because the two surveys had coordinated collection. The PIAAC direct measures of skills are reflected in a set of 10 plausible values (PVs) for each of the three domains measured by PIAAC: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments (PSTRE). The first part of this study describes and demonstrates the use of the PVs to obtain group-level estimates and estimates of the standard error. The second part of this study compares the LISA estimates to the PIAAC estimates to assess differences - as only a subset of the PIAAC respondents are included in LISA.

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