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Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a cyclical, large-scale study that was developed under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As part of the first cycle of data collection, referred to as PIAAC Cycle 1, adults were surveyed in 24 participating countries in 2012, 9 additional countries in 2014, and 5 more countries in 2017.

Participating Countries are listed below.

Participating Countries
	Cycle 1			Cycle 2
	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 1
	2012	2014	2017	2023
Australia	●			○
Austria	●			○
Belgium (Flemish)	●			○
Canada	●			○
Chile		●		○
Croatia				○
Cyprus	●
Czech Republic	●			○
Denmark	●			○
Ecuador			●
Estonia	●			○
Finland	●			○
France	●			○
Germany	●			○
Greece		●
Hungary			●	○
Indonesia		○
Ireland	●			○
Israel		●		○
Italy	●			○
Japan	●			○
Kazakhstan			●
Korea, Republic of	●			○
Latvia				○
Lithuania		●		○
Mexico			●
Netherlands	●			○
New Zealand		●		○
Norway	●			○
Peru			●
Poland	●			○
Portugal				○
Russian Federation	○			○
Singapore		●		○
Slovak Republic	●			○
Slovenia		●
Spain	●			○
Sweden	●			○
Switzerland				○
Turkey		●
United Kingdom (England)	●			○
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)	●
United States	●		●	○
Total	25	9	6	33
● = Indicates participation in particular assessment with results reported or forthcoming.
○ = Indicates participation in particular assessment but results either not reported or reported separately, typically due to sampling, response rates, or other procedural problems with the data.
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/countries.asp