Wölfel, OliverOliverWölfelKleinert, CorinnaCorinnaKleinert0000-0002-9285-60702019-09-192013-08-022012https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/1901This 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.engDescription of the ALWA literacy and numeracy data (ALWA-LiNu)workingpaperhttp://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2012/DR_05-12_EN.pdf