This paper is from Session 5F: Statistical Education for Decision Makers for Evidence Based Policy Making
which comes under Topic 5: Statistics education in the workplace, government and across disciplines
Paper 5F3 (Tuesday 10th, 14:00-15:30)
Adult Learning as a Chance for Improving Statistical Literacy of Decision Makers: Focusing the Case of Croatia
Presenter
- Ksenija Dumicic (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Co-author
- Toni Milun (Algebra University College, Croatia)
Abstract
The adult participation in lifelong learning indicator, referring to learning activities after the end of initial education for people 25 and 64, shows an increase in majority of European countries. The Cedefop (2015) survey on skill shortages and gaps in European enterprises focuses that workers’ skills of different scope required by the workforce are characterized by larger skill gaps. High-performing organizations tend to invest more in worker skill development, non-formal and informal, reducing the cost of skill incompatibility and increasing the firm’s productivity. Statistical knowledge, as other skills, has a great chance to be improved through the adult learning in European countries. Regarding the adult learning as a chance for enhancing statistical literacy for decision makers, for citizenship and the workplace, Croatia is focused.