From this page, you can download the Public Use Files (PUF), codebooks, background questionnaires and all materials needed to undertake your own analysis of the 2nd Cycle PIAAC data (2023).
2nd Cycle: Thirty-one countries participated in Round 1 of the Second Cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data collection took place from September 2022 to August 2023.
1st Cycle: Thirty-nine countries participated in the First Cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills between 2011 and 2018, through three different rounds of data collection. Please consult the list of countries that took part in each of the Rounds and explore the results of the 1st Cycle.
National versions of the questionnaires are available for downloading through the links below. (forthcoming)
| Austria | Finland | Korea | Singapore |
| Belgium (Flemish Region) | France | Latvia | Slovak Republic |
| Canada | Germany | Lithuania | Slovenia |
| Chile | Hungary | Netherlands | Spain |
| Croatia | Ireland | New Zealand | Sweden |
| Czechia | Israel | Norway | UK (England) |
| Denmark | Italy | Poland | United States |
| Estonia | Japan | Portugal |
Public Use Files containing individual unit record data in SAS, SPSS and CSV format are available for downloading for each of the countries participating in the Survey of Adult Skills.
In some countries, data protection laws mean that some variables cannot be included in the PUF for that country. This table provides a list of variables that are coded as “missing” in the PUFs, by country.
Codebooks
Compendia
These are sets of tables that provide categorical percentages for both cognitive and background items aiming to support PUF users gaining knowledge of the contents and checking they are performing PUF analyses correctly.
Forthcoming
