Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Clay County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 78,804
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 283Percent at Level 1: 14Percent at Level 1 or 2: 39
95% Confidence Interval: 279.05, 286.9495% Confidence Interval: 11.6, 16.195% Confidence Interval: 34.9, 43.2
Standard Error: 1.42Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 5 White:92
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 15 Black: 5
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 24 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 11
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: 58
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 65 Did not work: 26
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 32 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 12
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
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: 24
Laborer: 14
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