Survey of adult life skills
Science
A worldwide survey on everyday skills will also be carried out in Austria and Salzburg from September. The study is intended to show how reading ability, mathematical knowledge in everyday life and flexible problem-solving are in the population. Each test person receives 50 euros for participation.
Statistics Austria randomly selects 5,000 adults across Austria, writes to them and then sends a control person. The appointment will last about an hour and a half. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. Every ten years, the everyday skills of adults across Europe are surveyed by the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe – the PISA study on the knowledge level of students.
questions about everyday life
The adults are asked, for example, whether the participants can cope with an ATM withdrawal, whether they can calculate a percentage discount in the supermarket themselves or whether they can grasp the content of a newspaper article.
Country ranking results published
According to the OECD, the questions are important in order to be able to assess the coping of everyday social and professional life. Austria is taking part in the adult survey for the second time. Each test person receives 50 euros in the form of a shopping voucher or expenses for Austrian nature conservation projects for the time spent by Statistics Austria. The OECD will then publish the results in a country ranking list. In the last survey, Japan and Finland were leaders, Austria was roughly level with Germany in the middle.