Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Walton County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 22,144
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 261Percent at Level 1: 22Percent at Level 1 or 2: 56
95% Confidence Interval: 257.03, 264.8995% Confidence Interval: 19.1, 25.695% Confidence Interval: 52, 59.7
Standard Error: 1.41Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.4

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 13 White:91
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 20 Black: 7
High school diploma or equivalent: 31 Native American: 2
Received some college - no degree: 18 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 6 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 7
Attended graduate school: 4 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 99 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 1 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 44
Speak English not well or not at all: 0 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 5
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 6
Employed: 52 Did not work: 40
Unemployed: 4
Not in the labor force: 44 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 21
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 22
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: 31
Laborer: 22
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