Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Flagler County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 23,749
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 270Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 50
95% Confidence Interval: 265.9, 274.9595% Confidence Interval: 18.7, 25.895% Confidence Interval: 44.6, 54.7
Standard Error: 1.63Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.8

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 6 White:90
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 16 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 33 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 23 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 10
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 96 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 38
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 44 Did not work: 47
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 53 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 27
Sales, administrative assistant: 30 * 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: 27
Laborer: 16
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