Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Escambia County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 203,568
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 271Percent at Level 1: 23Percent at Level 1 or 2: 48
95% Confidence Interval: 266.61, 275.5895% Confidence Interval: 20, 25.395% Confidence Interval: 43.9, 52.6
Standard Error: 1.61Standard Error: 1Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:77
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 16 Black: 20
High school diploma or equivalent: 29 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 24 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 50
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: 6
Employed: 56 Did not work: 32
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 39 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
Sales, administrative assistant: 29 * 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: 28
Laborer: 14
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