Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Orange County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 532,513
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 277Percent at Level 1: 19Percent at Level 1 or 2: 43
95% Confidence Interval: 272.69, 280.9895% Confidence Interval: 16.2, 20.895% Confidence Interval: 38.8, 47.1
Standard Error: 1.49Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 6 White:80
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 15 Black: 15
High school diploma or equivalent: 30 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 23 Asian / Pacific Islander: 2
Received Associates Degree: 8 Other race: 3
Received Bachelors Degree: 14
Attended graduate school: 5 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 2
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 94 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 3 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 59
Speak English not well or not at all: 2 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 6
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 67 Did not work: 24
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 29 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 11
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 29
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: 13
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