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Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), log files

OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; ETS - Educational Testing Service; GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6712 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12955
Abstract: Objective: The PIAAC 2012 study was the first fully computer-based large scale assessment in education. During the assessment, user interactions were logged automatically. This means that most of the users’ actions within the assessment tool were recorded and stored with time stamps in separate files called log files. The log files contain paradata for each participant in the domains literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. The availability of these log files offers new opportunities to researchers, for instance to reproduce test-taking behavior of individuals a ... more
Topics: EDUCATION

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.08.2011 - 24.11.2012
Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.08.2011 - 31.03.2012, Austria | 19.08.2011 - 31.03.2012, Belgium (Flanders) | 28.08.2011 - 17.04.2012, Denmark | 01.08.2011 - 30.04.2012, Estonia | 30.08.2011 - 05.04.2012, Finland | 07.09.2012 - 24.11.2012, France | 01.08.2011 - 31.03.2012, Germany | 01.08.2011 - 31.03.2012, Ireland | 01.09.2011 - 15.04.2012, Italy | 22.08.2011 - 11.05.2012, Ne ... more
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Belgium (BE), The geographic coverage comprises only the region Flanders. | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Finland (FI) | France (FR) | Germany (DE) | Ireland (IE) | Italy (IT) | Netherlands (NL) | Norway (NO) | Poland (PL) | Slovakia (SK) | Spain (ES) | England (GB-ENG), The geographic coverage comprises only England and Northern Ire ... more
Universe: All adults in private households between 16 and 65 years of age that resided in the country during the time of data collection, regardless of citizenship, nationality or language.
Number of Units: 81744 AT: 3837 BE: 4262 DE: 4542 DK: 7950 ES: 3943 EE: 4079 FI: 4503 FR: 4936 GB: 7250 IE: 4089 IT: 2759 KR: 7024 NL: 4608 NO: 4341 PL: 5979 SK: 3511 US: 4131
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Systematic random • Probability: Stratified • Probability: Multistage; Austria: Systematic Random Sample Design Denmark, Netherlands, Norway: Stratified Sample Design Belgium, Estonia, Finland: Systematic Random Stratified Sample Design France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United Stat ... more
Temporal Research Design: Cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Educational measurements and tests; Educational measurements and tests
Data Collector: Austria: Statistics Austria Belgium: Gfk Belgium Denmark: The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) Estonia: Statistics Estonia Finland: Statistics Finland France: National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) Germany: TNS Infratest Sozialforschung Ireland: Central Statistics Office Italy: Istituto per lo sviluppo della ... more
Analysis System(s): XML
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: -
Notes: Survey unit: adults; teenagers### International PIAAC 2012 Public-Use-Files for all PIAAC countries can be downloaded from the OECD website: http://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/data/ >http://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/data/ (available for SPSS, SAS, and STATA). For more Information and Materials see OECD website and FDZ PIAAC website.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: - OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | - ETS - Educational Testing Service | - GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences | - DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research | - cApStAn - Linguistic Quality Control | - ROA - Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market | - IEA DPC (Data ... more
Publication year: 2017
DOI: 10.4232/1.12955 | 10.4232/1.12569
Study number: ZA6712
Contributor, Institution, Role: GESIS - Distributor | GESIS - HostingInstitution
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ PIAAC bei GESIS
External links: OECD PIAAC Log files Homepage | Research Data Centre PIAAC (RDC PIAAC) Log files Homepage | Download Log Data Analyzer (LDA) | PIAAC Log File Documentation

Versions

Current Version: 2.0.0, 2017-12-22, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12955
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: OECD. (2013). OECD skills outlook 2013: First results from the Survey of Adult Skills. Paris: OECD Publishing. | OECD. (2016). Technical report of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) (Second Edition). Paris: OECD. | OECD. (2016). The Survey of Adult Skills – Reader´s companion, Second Edition. Paris: OECD Publishing.
Study group:
PIAAC - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies | show all hits of the group
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is also known as "PISA for Adults". Like PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), it is an international comparative study commissioned by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to record basic competencies. It examines a sample of ... more

Cite:

OECD (2017). Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), log files. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6712 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12955.

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