Defined Terms and Documents       

Numeracy And Literacy Authorities means:

Productivity Commission

1.         The Author and Contributors of the Productivity Commission's Staff Working Paper 'Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes' (financed and resourced by the Productivity Commission) - refer its Key Points and MEDIA RELEASE

2.         Productivity Commission's Staff Working Paper - Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes dated Aug 2010

3.         Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper  -  Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes in Australia - May 2014

Australian Bureau of Statistics

1.         Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007, Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, Summary Results, Australia, ABS cat. no. 4228.0, ABS, Canberra.

2.         Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Social Trends - 2008 Article: "Adult literacy"

3.         4228.0 - ABS - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, Australia, 2011-12 

4.         4228.0 - Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, Summary Results, Australia, 2006 (Reissue)  

5.         Dave Tout, ACER - "What can the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALLS) tell us? - What’s ALL the story?"

6.         ABS' PIAAC 2011-12 report which evidences that over 40% of Australians possess numeracy and literacy skills less that level 3

Dept. of Education and Training - Commonwealth Govt.

1.         The Project Team that produced AUSTRALIAN CORE SKILLS FRAMEWORK

Australian Council for Educational Research

1.         Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACER)

2.         How Australia measures up - school student financial literacy - "The OECD contracted the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER ) to manage the development of the mathematics, problem solving and financial literacy frameworks for PISA 2012." - Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli and Sarah Buckley

3.         Dave Tout, ACER - "What can the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALLS) tell us? - What’s ALL the story?"

National Centre For Vocational Education Research

1.         Mapping adult literacy performance - written by Michelle Circelli, David D Curtis and Kate Perkins

Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

1.         Consumer Credit Reform and Behavioural Economics: Regulating Australia’s Credit Card Industry - Paul Ali, Cosima McRae and Ian Ramsay* - 2012

2.         The financial literacy of young Australians: An empirical study and implications for consumer protection and ASIC’s National Financial Literacy Strategy - Paul Ali, Malcolm Anderson, Cosima McRae and Ian Ramsay - 2014