Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Columbia County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 32,106
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 259Percent at Level 1: 24Percent at Level 1 or 2: 57
95% Confidence Interval: 255.32, 262.0895% Confidence Interval: 21.6, 26.995% Confidence Interval: 53.6, 60.2
Standard Error: 1.21Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.2

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 11 White:80
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 20 Black: 18
High school diploma or equivalent: 33 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 19 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 48
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: 6
Employed: 55 Did not work: 36
Unemployed: 5
Not in the labor force: 40 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 24
Sales, administrative assistant: 27 * 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: 31
Laborer: 19
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