Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Okaloosa County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 110,501
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 281Percent at Level 1: 16Percent at Level 1 or 2: 40
95% Confidence Interval: 277.04, 284.4195% Confidence Interval: 13.5, 17.695% Confidence Interval: 36.3, 44.1
Standard Error: 1.32Standard Error: 0.7Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 5 White:87
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 11 Black: 9
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 28 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 57
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 60 Did not work: 26
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 36 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 32
Sales, administrative assistant: 27 * 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: 29
Laborer: 12
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