Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Volusia County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 305,672
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 268Percent at Level 1: 21Percent at Level 1 or 2: 50
95% Confidence Interval: 264.35, 272.2695% Confidence Interval: 18.6, 24.395% Confidence Interval: 46, 54.6
Standard Error: 1.42Standard Error: 1Standard Error: 1.5

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 7 White:89
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 17 Black: 9
High school diploma or equivalent: 32 Native American: 0
Received some college - no degree: 23 Asian / Pacific Islander: 1
Received Associates Degree: 7 Other race: 1
Received Bachelors Degree: 9
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 1
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 44
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: 5
Employed: 51 Did not work: 40
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 46 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 16
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 27
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: 29
Laborer: 14
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