Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Alachua County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 145,801
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 287Percent at Level 1: 19Percent at Level 1 or 2: 36
95% Confidence Interval: 280.12, 294.1195% Confidence Interval: 16.4, 22.595% Confidence Interval: 29.9, 42.5
Standard Error: 2.51Standard Error: 1.1Standard Error: 2.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 5 White:78
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 10 Black: 19
High school diploma or equivalent: 19 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 25 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 13 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 16
Attended graduate school: 13 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 2
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 50
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 7
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 9
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 9
Employed: 59 Did not work: 26
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 38 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 10
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 42
Sales, administrative assistant: 27 * 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: 22
Laborer: 9
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