Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Hendry County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 18,577
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 238Percent at Level 1: 31Percent at Level 1 or 2: 68
95% Confidence Interval: 233.28, 242.5695% Confidence Interval: 28, 34.895% Confidence Interval: 64, 72.2
Standard Error: 1.67Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 22 White:72
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 23 Black: 17
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 2
Received some college - no degree: 11 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 9
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 5
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 86 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 4 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 47
Speak English not well or not at all: 9 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 7
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 7
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 7
Employed: 59 Did not work: 31
Unemployed: 5
Not in the labor force: 36 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 14
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 21
Sales, administrative assistant: 22 * 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: 33
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