Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Osceola County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 83,363
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 270Percent at Level 1: 18Percent at Level 1 or 2: 48
95% Confidence Interval: 265.99, 273.1895% Confidence Interval: 16.1, 20.795% Confidence Interval: 44, 51.9
Standard Error: 1.29Standard Error: 0.8Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 8 White:89
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 19 Black: 5
High school diploma or equivalent: 36 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 20 Asian / Pacific Islander: 3
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 3
Received Bachelors Degree: 7
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 94 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 4 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: 63 Did not work: 29
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 34 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 22
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: 35
Laborer: 15
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