Description of the ALWA literacy and numeracy data (ALWA-LiNu)
Faculty/Professorship: | Empirical Microeconomics |
Author(s): | Wölfel, Oliver; Kleinert, Corinna ![]() |
Volume Number/Title: | Working and Learning in a Changing World ; VII |
Corporate Body: | Research Data Centre (FDZ) |
Publisher Information: | Nürnberg |
Year of publication: | 2012 |
Pages: | 16 |
Series ; Volume: | FDZ-Methodenreport : Methodological aspects of labour market data ; 5 |
Language(s): | English |
URL: | http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2012/DR_05-12_EN... |
Abstract: | This report describes the variables of ALWA-LiNu data. The IAB study ALWA (‘Work-ing and Learning in a Changing World’) was conducted in 2007/08 and contains de-tailed retrospective life course data of 10,404 individuals living in Germany born in between 1956 and 1988. ALWA-LiNu provides information of 3,980 study participants on their cognitive skills in two domains, prose literacy and numeracy. |
Type: | Workingpaper |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/1901 |
Year of publication: | 2. August 2013 |

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