TY - BOOK AU - Lawes,Elliot ED - New Zealand. TI - Literacy and life skills for Pasifika adults: further investigation : results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) survey SN - 0478341598 U1 - 302.22440993 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Wellington, N.Z. PB - Comparative Education Research Unit, Ministry of Education KW - Functional literacy KW - New Zealand KW - Statistics KW - Life skills KW - Numeracy KW - Pacific Islanders KW - Education KW - Life skills assessment N1 - Cover title; Also available online N2 - "This report describes, for the adult Pasifika population of New Zealand, a statistical relationship between each of prose literacy and document literacy , and a number of background factors including educational attainment and familiarity with English. In particular, this report describes the relationship between distributions of these English literacy skills and each of the factors: age; gender; labour force status; educational attainment (in the form of time spent in formal education); language most frequently spoken when at home (representing familiarity with English); first language; place of birth; and income"--P.4 ER -