Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Florida
Area Type: State (Overall)Region: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 10,377,252
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 265Percent at Level 1: 25Percent at Level 1 or 2: 51
95% Confidence Interval: 261.53, 268.3295% Confidence Interval: 22.3, 27.195% Confidence Interval: 47.2, 54.7
Standard Error: 1.22Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 9 White:83
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 14
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 20 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 2
Received Bachelors Degree: 11
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 3
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 92 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 4 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 49
Speak English not well or not at all: 5 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 57 Did not work: 35
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 40 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
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: 26
Laborer: 14
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