Nikkei Research entrusted to conduct
the field trial of the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
Nikkei Research has been entrusted from the National Institute for Educational Policy Research under Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to conduct the field trial of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
The measured “adult skills” are not just how much knowledge you have, but rather problem-finding and problem-solving with the use of knowledge and information -- that is important for thriving the real world. The OECD’s PIAAC is a large-scale international project assessing the “adult skills” of people from age 16 to 65 in over 30 countries, including Japan. The assessment focuses on the three areas, literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in a changing situation. In addition, a “background study” will investigate the education level, income, and how they use their skills in their jobs.
- The objectives of the study are the following.
1. To understand the level of people’s “adult skills”.
2. To evaluate the effect on social and economic outcome of “adult skills”.
3. To verify the educational training program for gaining ”adult skills”.
4. To benefit upon planning political measures for enhancing “adult skills”. - The field trial is carried out prior to the regular survey (main survey planned in 2022), conducting a smaller set of survey to examine beforehand, evaluating the difficulties upon measuring the “adult skills” and the appropriateness of the questionnaire of the background survey.
- Selection of the survey respondents
The target of the survey is the entire Japanese residents aged 16 to 65. Every person will be chosen by the same possibility. When doing so, the sampling procedure is modified to represent and to cover the whole Japan, by selecting broadly from each area; from Hokkaido to Kyushu-Okinawa, and from large cities to villages, to choose people from variety of places.