Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Sarasota County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 239,179
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 277Percent at Level 1: 19Percent at Level 1 or 2: 45
95% Confidence Interval: 272.33, 281.1295% Confidence Interval: 16, 22.895% Confidence Interval: 39.9, 49.7
Standard Error: 1.58Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.8

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 5 White:95
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 14 Black: 4
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 22 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 13
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 42
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: 48 Did not work: 44
Unemployed: 2
Not in the labor force: 50 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 14
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 30
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: 29
Laborer: 12
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