I am not too excited by this graph to be honest. I took a look at some education and enrollment statistics from the Census. The base for the percentage is children over three enrolled in school. The analysis also includes college and graduate school enrollment. This explains why the Grand Forks and Cass counties show such a low number. Their university enrollments work against them in this regard.
Continue reading Kindergarten through 12th Grade Enrollment in ND
There are many ways to calculate and present the average income for a population. I am trying out a new measure (for me) tonight with this post. I am doing some exploratory analysis with various different data sets and I thought I would look at some IRS data right now.
The recent article on women’s hockey in Grand Forks and at the University of North Dakota is an interesting read (link). What is more interesting is the additional discussion I heard on Bloomberg radio this morning. The discussants on “Surveillance” thought it sad and unfortunate, going so far as to suggest that North Dakota was awash in oil money, private companies were flush with profits, and they could not find a way to make it work. There was also a suggestion the state is unable to overcome a culture biased against women playing such a physical sport.