Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Hernando County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 84,585
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 261Percent at Level 1: 25Percent at Level 1 or 2: 58
95% Confidence Interval: 255.55, 265.5995% Confidence Interval: 20.9, 29.495% Confidence Interval: 52.1, 63.1
Standard Error: 1.8Standard Error: 1.5Standard Error: 2

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 8 White:95
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 21 Black: 4
High school diploma or equivalent: 37 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 19 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 32
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: 37 Did not work: 54
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 59 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 23
Sales, administrative assistant: 30 * 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: 31
Laborer: 17
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