Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Jefferson County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 8,380
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 244Percent at Level 1: 33Percent at Level 1 or 2: 67
95% Confidence Interval: 239.41, 248.7795% Confidence Interval: 28.7, 37.395% Confidence Interval: 62.8, 70.7
Standard Error: 1.68Standard Error: 1.5Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:56
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 19 Black: 43
High school diploma or equivalent: 33 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 14 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 9
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 0 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 49
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 4
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 57 Did not work: 35
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 40 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 28
Sales, administrative assistant: 26 * 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: 23
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