Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Seminole County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 223,334
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 288Percent at Level 1: 14Percent at Level 1 or 2: 36
95% Confidence Interval: 283.32, 292.0495% Confidence Interval: 11.5, 16.195% Confidence Interval: 31.4, 40.1
Standard Error: 1.57Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 4 White:88
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 12 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 27 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 25 Asian / Pacific Islander: 3
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 17
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 96 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 60
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: 68 Did not work: 24
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 29 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 10
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 35
Sales, administrative assistant: 33 * 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: 21
Laborer: 11
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