Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: St. Lucie County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 118,808
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 262Percent at Level 1: 24Percent at Level 1 or 2: 55
95% Confidence Interval: 258.25, 265.1495% Confidence Interval: 21.8, 2795% Confidence Interval: 51, 58.6
Standard Error: 1.24Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 9 White:82
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 20 Black: 16
High school diploma or equivalent: 34 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 19 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 8
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 96 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 44
Speak English not well or not at all: 2 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 52 Did not work: 39
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 44 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 23
Sales, administrative assistant: 30 * 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: 30
Laborer: 17
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