Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Martin County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 85,078
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 274Percent at Level 1: 21Percent at Level 1 or 2: 47
95% Confidence Interval: 269.19, 278.2695% Confidence Interval: 17.4, 24.395% Confidence Interval: 41.5, 51.6
Standard Error: 1.63Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.8

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 6 White:91
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 15 Black: 6
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 22 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 2
Received Bachelors Degree: 13
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 96 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: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 48 Did not work: 42
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 49 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
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: 29
Laborer: 13
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