The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-06-17
BUREAU
SUBMITS FIGURES
llliteracy in Idaho is Now Only lis
Per Cent, and Has Decreased in
Last Decade.
Idaho: uliteracy.

washington, -. o., June 10, 1921.
According to the census of 1920
there are 4,924 illiterate persons 10
years OF age and over in the state of
Idaho, "llliterate" meaning unable to
write. OF this number 914 are ma
| tive whites and 2,501 are foreign
born. In the total population 10
years of age and over the percentage
of illiteracy is Is, which shows a
diminution since 1910, when it was
2.2. IT, ,-i-f--r r---r-
BY counties the percentage of il
hteracy ranges all the way from 5.S
in Clearwater County to O.2 in Jer-
ONE and Teton Counties.
Age in Idaho.
According TO the census 35.3 per
cent, or more than one-third, of the
people in the state of Ida no are either
infants or children under / 5 years of
age; S.9 per cent are youths or maid
ems 10 to 19 years old; 37.4 per cent,
nearly two-fifths, are men and wo-
men in the prime of life, being from
20 to "A years old; while 1873 per
cent being As years of age and over,
are we'll along in middle life if they
have not reached old age.
The urban population as compared
with the rural shows some rather
striking differences in age, the per-
centage 20 to A years of age being
4O.6 for the urban population as
compared with 36.2 for the rural,
while the percentage under Is year
of age is 30.4 in the urban popula-
ton as against 37.2 in the rural.
These differences may indicate larger
families of children in the country
| than in the city, but probably indi-
cate also the fact that country chill
dren, as they grow up have a ten
dency to flock to the cities thereby
increasing the active adult popula-
ton of the cities at the expense Of
the rural districts.
| A little over one-half of the popu-
lation, 54.2 per cent, are old enough
to vote, being 2 or over; and in this
class the men Outnumber the women
in the ratio of 131 to 100. The males
of military or fighting age, 18 to
A, constitute 400 per cent of the
male population and 22.2 per cent Of
the total population.
Boise, Idaho: Illiteracy.
The census bureau reports that in
the population Of Boise, Idaho, as
enumerated in January. 1920, there
were 286 persons 10 years of age or
over who were illiterate in the sense
Of hpin,O h1o tn ri io
number 176 were foreign-born whites
and only 25 were native whites. The
percentage of illiateracy in the total
population OF 10 years of age and
Lover is 1.6 which shows decrease
since 1910 when 1t was Al. For
the native white the percentage is
O.2, and for the foreign-b born white,
"a.
Pocatello, Idaho: Illiteracy.
The census bureau reports that in
the population of Pocatello, IDAHO
as enumerated in January, 1920,
there were 4S3 persons 10 years of
age or over who were illiterate in
the sense of being unable to write.
OF this number 400 we're foreign
born whites and only 27 were native
whites. The percentage of illteracy
in the total population 10 years of
age and over is Al which shows an
increase since 1910 when it was O.4.
For the native white the percentage
is O.3, and for the foreign born
white, 20.6.
Idaho: School Attendance.
According to the census of 1920
there are 68,198 children to 13
years Of age in the state of Idaho and
of this number 65,102 or 95.5 per
cent were reported as attending
school. In 1910 the percentage at
tending school was S7.4 thus indi-
eating gratifying improvement as
regards school attendance between
1910 and 1920. or the children IA
and Is years of age in 1920, 91.6
per cent weH attending school and
of those Is and II years of age 623
per cent.
The percentage of children attend
in the cities as in the contry dis
tricts, the percentage for children in
the urban population to 13 years
of age being 95.4 and in the rural
population, 95.5. urban" accord
ing to the census definition includes
all towns or cities of $500 popula-
tion or more.