Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Collier County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 124,687
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 273Percent at Level 1: 20Percent at Level 1 or 2: 46
95% Confidence Interval: 268.98, 276.795% Confidence Interval: 17.2, 23.195% Confidence Interval: 41.2, 50.1
Standard Error: 1.39Standard Error: 1.1Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 9 White:91
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 14 Black: 5
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 20 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 3
Received Bachelors Degree: 14
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 3
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 92 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 46
Speak English not well or not at all: 4 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 55 Did not work: 37
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 43 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 11
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 26
Sales, administrative assistant: 28 * 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: 29
Laborer: 17
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