Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Dade County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 1,519,969
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 237Percent at Level 1: 42Percent at Level 1 or 2: 64
95% Confidence Interval: 231.23, 241.7895% Confidence Interval: 37.5, 46.595% Confidence Interval: 59.9, 68.8
Standard Error: 1.9Standard Error: 1.6Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:73
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 18 Black: 21
High school diploma or equivalent: 24 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 17 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 5
Received Bachelors Degree: 11
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 10
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 66 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 12 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 51
Speak English not well or not at all: 22 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 60 Did not work: 33
Unemployed: 5
Not in the labor force: 36 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 10
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 28
Sales, administrative assistant: 31 * 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: 26
Laborer: 15
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