Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Polk County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 318,545
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 263Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 55
95% Confidence Interval: 259.64, 266.0595% Confidence Interval: 19.5, 24.995% Confidence Interval: 51, 57.9
Standard Error: 1.15Standard Error: 1Standard Error: 1.2

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 11 White:84
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 21 Black: 13
High school diploma or equivalent: 33 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 18 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 8
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 47
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: 6
Employed: 54 Did not work: 36
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 42 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 23
Sales, administrative assistant: 28 * 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: 21
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