Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Indian River County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 74,552
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 270Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 50
95% Confidence Interval: 265.47, 274.6395% Confidence Interval: 18.5, 25.595% Confidence Interval: 44.7, 54.6
Standard Error: 1.65Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.8

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:90
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 18 Black: 9
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 21 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 42
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 47 Did not work: 43
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 49 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 14
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 27
Sales, administrative assistant: 29 * 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: 28
Laborer: 16
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