From 15 To 27 Years Old

The PISA surveys map the skills of 15-16-year-old students, for example in reading. However, how do the students cope in education and at work up to the age of 27? Which young people have a more positive development in their reading skills, and which have less?
This is the topic of this report, that elucidates the reading skills of 1,881 15-16-year-old PISA students in 2000 and again as 27-year-olds in 2011/12, when they took part in the PIAAC survey. The report builds on interviews and tests with these young people.
The report is about the interplay between developments in reading skills and the young people's journey to education, labour market and transfer income etc. The report shows that there is a clear link between reading skills at the age of 15 and how well they perform later. Moreover, the report shows that the better the reading skills at the age of 15, the better the skills at 27. Not only primary and lower secondary school, but also higher education and life after primary and lower secondary school, affect reading skills at the age of 27.
This study has been financed and made possible by a collaboration between the Danish Ministry of Education, the Danish Ministry of Employment, the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, the Danish Ministry of Business and Growth as well as the Danish Ministry of Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs.