Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Calhoun County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 8,401
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 247Percent at Level 1: 29Percent at Level 1 or 2: 67
95% Confidence Interval: 242.35, 251.2595% Confidence Interval: 25, 32.695% Confidence Interval: 62.8, 70.7
Standard Error: 1.6Standard Error: 1.4Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 17 White:83
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 27 Black: 15
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 14 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 4
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 39
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 7
Employed: 46 Did not work: 43
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 51 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 22
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 19
Sales, administrative assistant: 21 * 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: 33
Laborer: 27
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