Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: DeSoto County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 18,863
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 240Percent at Level 1: 32Percent at Level 1 or 2: 70
95% Confidence Interval: 236.11, 244.8795% Confidence Interval: 28.4, 35.695% Confidence Interval: 65.6, 73.6
Standard Error: 1.57Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 18 White:80
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 28 Black: 16
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 13 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 3
Received Bachelors Degree: 4
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 2
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 95 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 41
Speak English not well or not at all: 3 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 47 Did not work: 42
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 50 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 21
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 18
Sales, administrative assistant: 20 * 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: 30
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