Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Pinellas County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 717,488
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 276Percent at Level 1: 20Percent at Level 1 or 2: 45
95% Confidence Interval: 271.87, 280.0795% Confidence Interval: 17.1, 22.495% Confidence Interval: 40.8, 50
Standard Error: 1.47Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.6

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 6 White:91
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 16 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 22 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 12
Attended graduate school: 6 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 47
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: 53 Did not work: 39
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 44 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 15
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 31
Sales, administrative assistant: 32 * 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: 26
Laborer: 12
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