Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Hardee County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 14,333
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 241Percent at Level 1: 27Percent at Level 1 or 2: 68
95% Confidence Interval: 235.58, 246.1295% Confidence Interval: 23.2, 3095% Confidence Interval: 63.6, 72.2
Standard Error: 1.9Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 26 White:84
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 20 Black: 6
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 11 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 3 Other race: 10
Received Bachelors Degree: 5
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 2
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 91 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 4 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 45
Speak English not well or not at all: 4 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 7
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 7
Employed: 54 Did not work: 35
Unemployed: 5
Not in the labor force: 41 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 18
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 19
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: 24
Laborer: 37
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