Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Holmes County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 12,417
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 253Percent at Level 1: 24Percent at Level 1 or 2: 62
95% Confidence Interval: 247.74, 257.3995% Confidence Interval: 19.8, 27.495% Confidence Interval: 57.8, 66.3
Standard Error: 1.73Standard Error: 1.4Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 19 White:93
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 24 Black: 5
High school diploma or equivalent: 34 Native American: 2
Received some college - no degree: 13 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 4
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 0 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 41
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 7
Employed: 49 Did not work: 39
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 47 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 22
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 20
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: 29
Laborer: 32
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