Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Santa Rosa County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 61,726
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 279Percent at Level 1: 16Percent at Level 1 or 2: 42
95% Confidence Interval: 274.63, 283.0395% Confidence Interval: 13.3, 18.495% Confidence Interval: 38, 46.7
Standard Error: 1.51Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:94
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 15 Black: 4
High school diploma or equivalent: 29 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 24 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 53
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 59 Did not work: 31
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 37 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
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: 15
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