When researching adult literacy in Canada, how do I use graphic organizers like these below for economic, personal or social...

There are so many options for graphic diagrams that
accommodate cognitive information systems that in this answer format, I can give only a
suggestion of what might be possible, but you can take the reasoning and apply it to
more choices. Starting with social issues, these involve varying ways individuals and
groups of individuals interact with each other. Therefore, when analyzing influence
among individuals or groups, you might consider an href="http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm">interaction
cycle graphic. This shows how events in a cycle produce a set of results again
and again. For instance, when considering adult literacy, you might use this cycle to
analyze or demonstrate how adult illiteracy leads to job performance failure, which
leads to loss of self-esteem, which leads to lack of self-confidence, which leads to job
performance failure.

For personal concerns or decisions
regarding adult illiteracy, you might consider using a href="http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/brainstorm.html">synetics
chart. This chart sets up metaphors, which are comparisons of unfamiliar
things to well known things to make the unfamiliar more understandable. Perhaps an
illiterate adult is trying to decide to take reading and writing lessons, a difficult
decision for a number of reasons. The synetics chart asks what not knowing reading is
similar to, feels like, is opposite of and what the opposite is similar to. The purpose
is to determine a synthesis, a coming together of ideas, leading to an enlightened
decision about what to do based upon what the problem is like when framed in terms of
something else that the adult understands better.

For
economic considerations, such as whether the cost of taking adult literacy lessons is
worth the expense, you might use a href="http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/brainstorm.html">cerebral
chart that focuses on a main idea and examines off-shoots of the main idea. In
this case, the main idea would be buying literacy lessons. One obvious off-shoot is the
costs in money and time themselves. Another is the trade-off: if an illiterate adult
spends money and time for lessons, what things are being deprived of money and time?
This analysis might help the adult to see more clearly the costs versus the benefits,
which  would facilitate arriving at a sound and confident
decision.