Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Monroe County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 65,861
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 276Percent at Level 1: 18Percent at Level 1 or 2: 43
95% Confidence Interval: 272.37, 279.1795% Confidence Interval: 15.4, 20.295% Confidence Interval: 39.2, 46.7
Standard Error: 1.22Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:92
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 13 Black: 6
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 23 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 13
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 2
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 94 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 54
Speak English not well or not at all: 3 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 62 Did not work: 29
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 36 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 12
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 27
Sales, administrative assistant: 27 * 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: 32
Laborer: 13
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