Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Bradford County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 17,799
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 250Percent at Level 1: 29Percent at Level 1 or 2: 64
95% Confidence Interval: 246.44, 253.5295% Confidence Interval: 25.2, 32.195% Confidence Interval: 60.5, 67.5
Standard Error: 1.27Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 13 White:79
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 23 Black: 20
High school diploma or equivalent: 37 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 16 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: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 45
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: 47 Did not work: 38
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 51 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 21
Sales, administrative assistant: 25 * 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: 34
Laborer: 19
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