{"id":614,"date":"2009-12-09T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:55:27","slug":"us-literacy-rates-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/12\/09\/us-literacy-rates-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"US literacy rates (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/naal\/kf_demographics.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/12\/us_literacy_rates_2003.jpg\" alt=\"United States Literacy Rates - National Assessment of Adult Literacy\" title=\"United States Literacy Rates - National Assessment of Adult Literacy\" width=\"396\" height=\"220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/12\/us_literacy_rates_2003.jpg 396w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/12\/us_literacy_rates_2003-275x152.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Literacy Rates - National Assessment of Adult Literacy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The key<\/h3>\n<p><b>Number of Adults in Each Prose Literacy Level<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Prose Literacy<\/p>\n<p>    * Below Basic:<br \/>\n          o no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills<br \/>\n    * Basic:<br \/>\n          o can perform simple and everyday literacy activities<br \/>\n    * Intermediate:<br \/>\n          o can perform moderately challenging literacy activities<br \/>\n    * Proficient:<br \/>\n          o can perform complex and challenging literacy activities<\/p>\n<h3>What works<\/h3>\n<p>This is a simple way to do a bar graph when all of your bars will add up to 100%.  Just think:  they could have laid this information out in a standard bar graph with a separate bar for each level of literacy.  This way, it&#8217;s easier to see that all these parts add up to a whole population.<\/p>\n<p>It is alarming that there are more people &#8216;below basic&#8217; than &#8216;proficient&#8217; especially in the increasingly text-based world we live in.  Emails and chat clients have replaced many phone calls which is especially critical for workers.  (I wonder if on a per-communication basis it costs more to use the phone.  Anyone seen data?)<\/p>\n<h3>What needs work<\/h3>\n<p>I would have tried to get the categories labeled within the graphic itself.  Referring to a bulleted list is a bit cumbersome.  On the other hand, I appreciate the desire to thoroughly describe what each categorical label actually means, and it would have been hard to elegantly place all those words into the graphic.  <\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>National Assessment of Adult Literacy.  (2003)  <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/naal\/kf_demographics.asp\">Demographics overall.<\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key Number of Adults in Each Prose Literacy Level Prose Literacy * Below Basic: o no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills * Basic: o can perform simple and everyday literacy activities * Intermediate: o can perform moderately challenging literacy activities * Proficient: o can perform complex and challenging literacy activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,986],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-graphs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}