Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Charlotte County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 95,615
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 267Percent at Level 1: 23Percent at Level 1 or 2: 53
95% Confidence Interval: 262.46, 272.0795% Confidence Interval: 18.8, 2795% Confidence Interval: 47.2, 58
Standard Error: 1.73Standard Error: 1.5Standard Error: 2

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:95
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 18 Black: 4
High school diploma or equivalent: 38 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 19 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 8
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 35
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 40 Did not work: 51
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 58 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 17
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 26
Sales, administrative assistant: 31 * 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: 30
Laborer: 13
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