Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Broward County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 1,025,129
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 270Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 49
95% Confidence Interval: 266.29, 273.7695% Confidence Interval: 20, 24.595% Confidence Interval: 44.5, 52.9
Standard Error: 1.34Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:82
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 15
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 20 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 3
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 93 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 4 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 51
Speak English not well or not at all: 3 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 59 Did not work: 34
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 38 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 12
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 30
Sales, administrative assistant: 33 * 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: 27
Laborer: 11
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