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This open access methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that assesses key cognitive and occupational skills of the adult population in more than 40 countries. The approximately 65 PIAAC datasets that has been published worldwide to date has been widely received and used by an interdisciplinary research community. Due to the complex structure of the data, analyses with PIAAC datasets are very challenging. To ensure the quality and significance of these data analyses, it is necessary to instruct users in the correct handling of the data. This methodological book provides a standardised approach to successfully implementing these data analyses. It contains examples of and tools for the analysis of the PIAAC data using different statistical approaches and software, and it offers perspectives from various disciplines. The contributing authors have hands-on experience of using PIAAC data, and/or they have conducted data analysis workshops with these data.

Assessment. --- Statistics . --- Education—Economic aspects. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Education Economics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- History --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law --- Education Economics --- International and Comparative Education --- Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy --- PIAAC data --- Large-scale assessment --- Data analysis --- Plausible values --- International comparison --- Key cognitive skills --- Literacy of adult population --- Numeracy of adult population --- Analysis with PIAAC datasets --- Stata --- R software --- Open access --- Education: examinations & assessment --- Social research & statistics --- Economics of specific sectors

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HIV/AIDS is drastically changing the demographic landscape in high-prevalence countries in Africa. The prime-age adult population bears the majority of the mortality burden. These "missing" prime-age adults have implications for the socioeconomic well-being of surviving family members. This study uses a 13-year panel from Tanzania to examine the impacts of prime-age mortality on the time use and health outcomes of older adults, with a focus on long-run impacts and gender dimensions. Prime-age deaths are weakly associated with increases in working hours of older women when the deceased adult was co-resident in the household. The association is strongest when the deceased adult was living with the elderly individual at the time of death and for deaths in the distant past, suggesting that shorter-run studies may not capture the full extent of the consequences of adult mortality for survivors. Holding more assets seems to buffer older adults from having to work more after these shocks. Most health indicators are not worse for older adults when a prime-age household member died, although more distant adult deaths are associated with an increased probability of acute illness for the surviving elderly. For deaths of children who were not residing with their parents at baseline, the findings show no impact on hours worked or health outcomes.

Adult mortality --- Adult population --- Age mortality --- Brown Issues and Health --- Deaths of children --- Demographics --- Dependent children --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Elderly --- Environment --- Epidemic --- Family members --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Gender and Social Development --- Gender inequalities --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health Systems Development and Reform --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Illness --- Life expectancy --- Mortality --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Older women --- Policy research --- Policy research working paper --- Population Policies --- Progress --- Remittances --- Respect