Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Manatee County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 174,852
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 269Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 50
95% Confidence Interval: 265.29, 273.0195% Confidence Interval: 18.8, 24.595% Confidence Interval: 45.1, 53.9
Standard Error: 1.39Standard Error: 1Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 8 White:90
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 35 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 20 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 10
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 43
Speak English not well or not at all: 2 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 50 Did not work: 42
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 47 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 26
Sales, administrative assistant: 28 * 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: 18
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