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PIAAC is short for ”Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies” and is an OECD study which measures adult skills. It is the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 166,000 people aged 16 to 65 across 25 countries. The first study came in 2013, and was followed up two years later with a Nordic PIAAC analysis, which encompassed Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Estonia.

The IPAAC study assesses adults’ proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills with the help of computers. A Nordic network of researchers in this area was established in 2010, and has complemented the PIAAC data with register data, which allows the results to be analysed further. The Nordic analysis showed that a total of around two million people in the participating countries had weak literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills.

A new PIAAC survey is expected to be published in 2021/2022.