Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Bay County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 98,349
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 273Percent at Level 1: 20Percent at Level 1 or 2: 47
95% Confidence Interval: 269.55, 276.8695% Confidence Interval: 17.2, 21.995% Confidence Interval: 43.1, 50.9
Standard Error: 1.31Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 8 White:86
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 11
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 23 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 10
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 51
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 57 Did not work: 32
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 39 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 16
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 28
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: 28
Laborer: 14
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