Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Okeechobee County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 22,427
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 252Percent at Level 1: 24Percent at Level 1 or 2: 60
95% Confidence Interval: 247.92, 256.7895% Confidence Interval: 20.8, 27.795% Confidence Interval: 55.8, 64.5
Standard Error: 1.59Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:85
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 26 Black: 6
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 1
Received some college - no degree: 14 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 3 Other race: 8
Received Bachelors Degree: 5
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 3
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 95 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 45
Speak English not well or not at all: 4 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 7
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 54 Did not work: 38
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 43 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 17
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 18
Sales, administrative assistant: 24 * 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: 28
Laborer: 30
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