y rural,
the percentage of children not attending any school is 14 per cent or
above in every county, and runs as high as 48 in one of the counties.

TABLE VIII

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION IN ARIZONA SIX TO TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE IN
SCHOOLS AND NOT ATTENDING SCHOOL, 1915-16[45]
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| | Private or |
| In Public | Parochial | Attended No
Counties | Schools | Schools | School
| (Per Cent) | (Per Cent) | (Per Cent)
------------+------------+------------+------------
Apache | 77 | 7 | 16
Cochise | 72 | 3 | 25
Coconino | 70 | 11 | 19
Gila | 80 | 1 | 19
Graham | 78 | 6 | 16
Greenlee | 76 | 1 | 23
Maricopa | 81 | 4 | 15
Mohave | 65 | 11 | 24
Navajo | 72 | 14 | 14
Pima | 57 | 12 | 31
Pinal | 77 | 1 | 22
Santa Cruz | 47 | 5 | 48
Yavapai | 70 | 5 | 25
Yuma | 78 | 1 | 21
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The irregular attendance of children at the schools in rural districts
of Minnesota is commented upon as follows:[46]

Irregular attendance is an evil beyond calculation, and we have
much of it in the open country school. Many schools last year
showed an average daily attendance of less than 60 per
cent--children in school only one half or two thirds of the time.

Anoka County:

The loss of time in the consolidated school is only two thirds of
that lost in the other rural schools.

Kittson County:

During the fall of the year farm hands are very scarce, and many of
the older children have to be kept out of school to assist with the
farm work. On account of deep snow and cold many children have to
stay out of school during winter. Transportation in winter would
help improve attendance in winter.

The per cent of attendance for the entire state of North Dakota was, for
the year ending June 30, 1914, 87 per cent, and for the following, 88
per cent.[47] County superintendents in the state sent in the following
reports for 1916.

McIntosh County