Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: St. Johns County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 67,359
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 280Percent at Level 1: 17Percent at Level 1 or 2: 42
95% Confidence Interval: 276.54, 284.2595% Confidence Interval: 14.8, 19.895% Confidence Interval: 37.6, 45.8
Standard Error: 1.39Standard Error: 0.9Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 6 White:90
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 15 Black: 8
High school diploma or equivalent: 29 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 22 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 14
Attended graduate school: 7 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 98 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 51
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 59 Did not work: 33
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 39 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 13
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 32
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: 25
Laborer: 12
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