[Wikipedia-l] A Three Way Split

Thu Sep 19 16:03:54 UTC 2002

On 18 Sep 2002, at 17:49, Giskart wrote:

> Fred Bauder wrote:
> 
> >I was watching ABC news and saw a believable statistic, that 40% of
> >the adult population can't read at the 5th grade level. 
> >
> 40% of the adult population of what ?  The USA ?
> 
> Perhaps the statistics of other English speaking countrys like Canada,
> New Zealand, Australia, England are better so the overal numbers are
> not so bad. -- giskart

For international statistics have a look at the summary,

http://www1.oecd.org/media/publish/pb00-9a.pdf 

Or at the full 200 page report at,

http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/8100051e.pdf

Imran