Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Lee County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 276,143
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 272Percent at Level 1: 20Percent at Level 1 or 2: 48
95% Confidence Interval: 268.58, 275.8495% Confidence Interval: 16.9, 22.895% Confidence Interval: 43.8, 52.2
Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.1Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:91
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 7
High school diploma or equivalent: 34 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 21 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 10
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 45
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 52 Did not work: 40
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 45 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 14
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 26
Sales, administrative assistant: 32 * 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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