Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Hillsborough County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 653,142
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 273Percent at Level 1: 20Percent at Level 1 or 2: 46
95% Confidence Interval: 269.11, 276.0295% Confidence Interval: 18.1, 22.395% Confidence Interval: 42.4, 49.5
Standard Error: 1.24Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 8 White:83
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 16 Black: 13
High school diploma or equivalent: 29 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 21 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 2
Received Bachelors Degree: 13
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 94 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 56
Speak English not well or not at all: 3 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 64 Did not work: 28
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 33 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 30
Sales, administrative assistant: 32 * 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: 23
Laborer: 15
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