This link will lead you to 2003 estimates of low literacy in adults 16 years and older in counties and cities in Virginia. The information is more recent than the Stephen Reder Synthetic Estimates, which were based on the 1990 census.
Facts and Statistics for Adult Education and Literacy
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Gathering Statistics
Grants and Funding Resources
Information for Virginia
- 2003 NAAL State and County Estimates of Low Literacy
- Accessing Virginia Statistics on the Internet: Virginia Libraries
- Census Virginia Quick Facts
- Community Profiles from YesVirginia.org
- Community Profiles: Virginia Employment Commission
- Dollar Value of Volunteer Time
- Educational Attainment, VA Counties and Cities, 2006-2010 US Census
- JLARC: VA General Assembly Reports
- Labor Market Data: Virginia Workforce Connection
- Population Estimates
- Poverty and the Social Safety Net in Virginia
- Poverty in Virginia: Virginia Performs
- Refugee Resettlement Reports
- Statistical Resources, Scholar’s Lab, UVA
- VAACE
- Virginia Atlas of Community Health
- Virginia Career View
- Virginia Employment Commission
- Virginia Jobs
- Virginia State Fact Sheet
- Virginia Statistics at the Weldon Cooper Center
- Virginia’s Not So Hidden Secret: The Adult Literacy Crisis
- Weldon Cooper Center for Public Statistics
Learning Disability
Literacy Program Director Information
National Literacy Information
- Adult Literacy a Factor in U.S. Economic/Health Crisis: 2011
- Adult Literacy Development and Economic Growth: 2010
- Facts and Figures from OVAE
- Facts and Statistics: Adult Learners
- LINCS: Information and Communication System
- National Reporting System: Fast Facts
- NCSDAE
- Stateline: State Policy and Politics Updated Daily
- World Bank Data: United States
Search For Demographic Information
Statistics for Correctional Education
- From the Classroom to the Community: Exploring the role of education from incarceration to re-entry, 2009, The Urban Institute
- Literacy Behind Bars: 2003 PDF Survey Report
- Literacy Behind Prison Walls, 1994
- Literacy Fact Sheet: Correctional Education
- Moving Men Into the Mainstream
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Re-Entry and Corrections Education
- What Are the Economic Effects of Earning a GED in Prison?
Virginia Localities
- Alexandria, Virginia: Poverty Rates, 2009
- An Overview of Poverty, Race, and Jurisdiction in Metropolitan Richmond, 2010
- Help Wanted: Smyth County, Virginia
- Literacy Facts: D.C.Learns
- United Way of Richmond and Greater Petersburg: Research and Resources
- Virginia Statistics at the Weldon Cooper Center
World Sites
- Adult and workplace Learning: Canada
- Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Scotland
- Best Practices for Adult Literacy: New Brunswick
- International Education Statistics: Trends in adult literacy 1990-2008
- Learning a Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, 2005
- National Adult Literacy Database: Canada
- New Technologies for Literacy and Adult Education: A Global Perspective
- NRDC: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, UK.
- State of the Field Report: Adult Literacy: Canada, 2006
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