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Table 4 Coefficient of variation of average numeracy scores, hourly wages, and years of schooling and their correlation coefficient, employed persons

From: Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment: evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC

	Coefficient of variation			Correlation coefficient
Country	Scores	Wages	Schooling	Scores–wages	Scores–schooling	Wages–schooling
Canada	0.19		0.21		0.42
Denmark	0.17	0.38	0.20	0.31	0.39	0.46
Finland	0.16	0.38	0.22	0.31	0.43	0.46
France	0.21	0.43	0.29	0.33	0.60	0.37
Germany	0.18	0.52	0.18	0.33	0.46	0.51
Ireland	0.19	0.55	0.19	0.33	0.47	0.36
Italy	0.20	0.53	0.33	0.23	0.41	0.34
Japan	0.15	0.69	0.18	0.26	0.46	0.29
Austria	0.17	0.58	0.22	0.27	0.43	0.38
Netherlands	0.16	0.46	0.19	0.27	0.40	0.45
Belgium	0.17	0.37	0.20	0.32	0.49	0.39
Norway	0.18	0.37	0.17	0.31	0.37	0.42
Spain	0.18	0.53	0.28	0.34	0.51	0.46
Sweden	0.17		0.21		0.39
UK	0.19	0.61	0.17	0.36	0.36	0.36
USA	0.23	0.67	0.23	0.37	0.55	0.47

Source: calculations based on PIAAC

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