Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Brevard County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 320,544
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 278Percent at Level 1: 18Percent at Level 1 or 2: 42
95% Confidence Interval: 273.87, 282.1995% Confidence Interval: 15.2, 2095% Confidence Interval: 38, 46.7
Standard Error: 1.49Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 5 White:90
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 13 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 24 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 13
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 51
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 58 Did not work: 33
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 39 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 35
Sales, administrative assistant: 27 * Hispanic origin, a different Census variable, was not used as a predictor because its impact on literacy was captured by English proficiency and immigration variables.
Service: 27
Laborer: 12
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