According to the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) data, 62 percent of non-native-English-speaking workers are Hispanic, more than a third do not have a high school diploma, about 20 percent do not speak English, and 25 percent learned English as adults but likely have limited English skills. The report, Survival Literacy Training for Non-Native-English-Speaking Workers, concludes that the literacy proficiency of these workers show that literacy is closely associated with length of employment, wages earned, hours worked, and occupations held.

Other reports developed using the 2003 NAAL data include: