What Do South Dakota Demographic Data Tell Us?
In June of 1995, Harold Hodgkinson of the Center for Demographic Policy reported to the South Dakota legislature. He made a number of observations and offered a several conclusions concerning South Dakota’s population. First, the State’s birth rate and in-migration rates are below the national average while the infant death rate is above the national average. South Dakota’s population will, therefore, continue to grow at a very slow rate in the foreseeable future and the state’s ranking in terms of population is likely to continue to fall – probably to 47th by the year 2010. South Dakotans are not exceptionally well educated, ranking 24th in terms of adults with high school educations and 38th as far as college educations are concerned. Only 17.3% of South Dakota’s adults have a college education compared to 20.3% nationally. On the positive side, South Dakota ranks very low in unemployment. In 1993, for example, only 3.5% of South Dakota’s population was unemployed compared to 6.8% na
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