Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Madison County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 12,532
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 241Percent at Level 1: 36Percent at Level 1 or 2: 72
95% Confidence Interval: 235.21, 246.395% Confidence Interval: 32.1, 40.895% Confidence Interval: 67.7, 76.3
Standard Error: 1.99Standard Error: 1.6Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:58
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 28 Black: 42
High school diploma or equivalent: 29 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 13 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 43
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 10
Employed: 49 Did not work: 38
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 48 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 20
Sales, administrative assistant: 22 * 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: 30
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