Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Sumter County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 25,294
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 250Percent at Level 1: 29Percent at Level 1 or 2: 65
95% Confidence Interval: 246.52, 254.3395% Confidence Interval: 25.3, 32.495% Confidence Interval: 60.6, 68.5
Standard Error: 1.4Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 13 White:82
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 24 Black: 16
High school diploma or equivalent: 37 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 15 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 5
Attended graduate school: 2 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 39
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 44 Did not work: 46
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 53 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 21
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 19
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: 29
Laborer: 23
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