Adult Literacy Estimates

State: FloridaArea Name: Washington County
Area Type: CountyRegion: SouthPopulation Age 16+: 13,178
Mean Literacy Proficiency: 247Percent at Level 1: 28Percent at Level 1 or 2: 66
95% Confidence Interval: 242.64, 250.495% Confidence Interval: 25, 31.895% Confidence Interval: 62, 69.2
Standard Error: 1.39Standard Error: 1.2Standard Error: 1.3

Census Predictors

(Based on 1990 U.S. Census Data)
Education% Race/Ethnicity *%
Education less than 9th grade: 16 White:83
Education between 9th and 12th grades: 23 Black: 15
High school diploma or equivalent: 37 Native American: 2
Received some college - no degree: 13 Asian / Pacific Islander: 0
Received Associates Degree: 4 Other race: 0
Received Bachelors Degree: 5
Attended graduate school: 2 Recent Immigrant %
Recent Immigrants: 0
English Proficiency %
Speak English very well: 97 Weeks Worked %
Speak English well: 2 Between 39 and 52 weeks: 40
Speak English not well or not at all: 1 Between 26 and 39 weeks: 4
Between 13 and 26 weeks: 6
Labor Force Status % Between 1 and 13 weeks: 5
Employed: 49 Did not work: 44
Unemployed: 3
Not in the labor force: 48 Work Disability%
% With work disability: 22
Occupation %
Professional, technical, managerial: 22
Sales, administrative assistant: 22 * 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: 28
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