Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Franklin County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 7,107
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 250Percent at Level 1: 27Percent at Level 1 or 2: 64
95% Confidence Interval: 246.3, 254.6695% Confidence Interval: 23, 30.395% Confidence Interval: 60.2, 68.1
Standard Error: 1.5Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:87
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 25 Black: 13
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 13 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 3 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 7
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 38
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 47 Did not work: 45
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 49 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 21
Sales, administrative assistant: 25 * 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: 28
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