Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Jackson County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 32,562
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 245Percent at Level 1: 31Percent at Level 1 or 2: 67
95% Confidence Interval: 241.23, 249.2395% Confidence Interval: 27.7, 34.995% Confidence Interval: 63, 70
Standard Error: 1.44Standard Error: 1.3Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 18 White:73
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 21 Black: 26
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 16 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 45
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 50 Did not work: 38
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 47 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 23
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 23
Sales, administrative assistant: 24 * 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: 23
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