Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Wakulla County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 10,639
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 267Percent at Level 1: 17Percent at Level 1 or 2: 51
95% Confidence Interval: 263.9, 270.9795% Confidence Interval: 14.4, 19.595% Confidence Interval: 47.3, 53.9
Standard Error: 1.27Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.2

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 11 White:85
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 18 Black: 13
High school diploma or equivalent: 39 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 18 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 100 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 0 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 56
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 66 Did not work: 28
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 31 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 16
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 26
Sales, administrative assistant: 29 * 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: 16
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