Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Suwannee County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 20,569
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 252Percent at Level 1: 27Percent at Level 1 or 2: 63
95% Confidence Interval: 248.12, 255.5795% Confidence Interval: 23.3, 29.895% Confidence Interval: 59, 66.1
Standard Error: 1.34Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 14 White:84
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 22 Black: 15
High school diploma or equivalent: 38 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 15 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 5
Attended graduate school: 2 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 43
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: 51 Did not work: 40
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 46 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 22
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 18
Sales, administrative assistant: 25 * 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: 30
Laborer: 27
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