Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Marion County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 156,490
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 262Percent at Level 1: 25Percent at Level 1 or 2: 56
95% Confidence Interval: 258.17, 266.0695% Confidence Interval: 22, 2895% Confidence Interval: 51.3, 59.9
Standard Error: 1.42Standard Error: 1.1Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 9 White:86
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 22 Black: 13
High school diploma or equivalent: 35 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 18 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 7
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 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: 48 Did not work: 43
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 49 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 18
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 24
Sales, administrative assistant: 30 * 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: 27
Laborer: 20
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