Document Type

Circular

Publication Date

1-1984

Department

Rural Sociology Department

Circular Number

229-08

Keywords

rural sociology, population shifts, population changes, census

Description

A general question on ancestry (ethnicity) was asked for the first time in a decennial census in 1980. Persons were asked to self-identify themselves as to which nationality group or country in which they or their parents or ancestors were born before their arrival in the United States. A large number (52% nationally) reported one ancestral tie, whereas the remaining persons identified multiple ancestral ties. Of the 392,401 South Dakotans who identified with one ancestral group, one in four (25.9%) identified themselves as of German decent, followed by Norwegian (6.8%), English (4.3%) and (Irish 3.2%). The other ten major groups cited by residents of the state and each county can be seen in Table I. In many cases "other groups" were a substantial portion of some of the counties. Table 2 reflects the total response for all ancestral groups for the state in 1980

Pages

4

Format

application/pdf

Type

text

Language

en

Publisher

Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University

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