# Eight-in-ten Americans rate their data literacy as good or better

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## Reading

In a Verasight survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted Nov. 14 to 20, 2025, 78% of Americans rated their own data literacy as good or better. This includes 27% who said good, 34% who said very good, and 17% who said excellent.

About one in seven rated their data literacy as fair (13%), and 9% rated it as poor.

## Topline

How would you rate your own data literacy?

78% of Americans rate their own data literacy as good or better.

Net findings combine adjacent response options from the same scale.

- Very Good: 33.8%
- Good: 27.5%
- Excellent; use and analyze data every day to inform my work and personal life.: 17.4%
- Fair: 12.6%
- Poor; I never use or analyze data in my day-to-day life: 8.7%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: US adults age 18+
- Field dates: 2025-11-14 → 2025-11-20
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.2%
- Module: Module 3
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-apha-2025#data-literacy-levels](https://reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-apha-2025#data-literacy-levels)

## Citation

Verasight APHA Omnibus Survey #2025-148, fielded November 14-20, 2025, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.2%.

Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-apha-2025#data-literacy-levels](https://reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-apha-2025#data-literacy-levels)