One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims at substantially increasing the percentage of the world's population who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital literacy. Currently, there are no standardised instruments for monitoring the SDG digital literacy indicator in accordance with UNESCO's Digital Literacy Global Framework. This report draws on an analysis of alternative methodological approaches and existing instruments for assessing digital literacy skills to recommend a suitable solution for the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

This report summarises a desk research project that aims to advise the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in designing an instrument for the assessment of digital literacy skills in the context of collecting data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 4.4.2. The SDG Target 4.4 aims to “By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship” and contains three indicators (UIS, 2017):

  • 4.4.1 Proportion of youth/adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill
  • 4.4.2 Percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital literacy skills
  • 4.4.3 Youth/adult educational attainment rates by age group, economic activity status, levels of education and programme orientation

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