Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Pasco County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 236,239
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 261Percent at Level 1: 24Percent at Level 1 or 2: 57
95% Confidence Interval: 255.98, 265.3995% Confidence Interval: 20.2, 28.195% Confidence Interval: 52, 62.4
Standard Error: 1.69Standard Error: 1.4Standard Error: 1.9

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 10 White:96
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 23 Black: 2
High school diploma or equivalent: 36 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 17 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 5 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 6
Attended graduate school: 3 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 35
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 5
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 41 Did not work: 51
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 56 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 19
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 24
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: 31
Laborer: 17
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