{"id":14222,"date":"2013-01-07T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:55:46","slug":"a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-2013-idaho-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/01\/07\/a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-2013-idaho-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are Idaho&#8217;s Legislators? A Demographic Breakdown Of The 2013 Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmakers that make up Idaho&#8217;s <a title=\"Your Guide To The 2013 Idaho Legislature\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/2013-legislature\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 state Legislature<\/a> are older, more educated, more male and more Mormon than the population of Idaho as a whole. That&#8217;s according to demographic data collected by <em>StateImpact Idaho<\/em>. You can check out the data in the infographic below. For context on what it means to have these demographic differences between Idaho&#8217;s population and its legislators, read our posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/06\/idahos-legislature-has-more-women-than-most-states\/\">gender<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/05\/idaho-has-older-than-average-legislature-does-age-matter\/\">age<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/12\/phds-mds-and-jds-among-idaho-lawmakers-diverse-educational-backgrounds\/\">education<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/13\/legislators-religions-align-closely-with-idahoans-except-for-catholics-and-mormons\/\">religion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/10\/how-lawmakers-day-jobs-affect-policy-decisions-in-idaho\/\">occupation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14403\" title=\"idaho_final\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final-93x300.jpg 93w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final-317x1024.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style='color: black;'>Embed this infographic on your site.<\/p>\n<p><textarea style='width:350px; height: 60px;'><a href='http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/01\/07\/a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-2013-idaho-legislature' title='Who Are Idaho's Legislators? A Demographic Breakdown Of The 2013 Legislature' ><img src='http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/01\/idaho_final.jpg' alt='' title='Who Are Idaho's Legislators? A Demographic Breakdown Of The 2013 Legislature' width='500' height='1600'\/><\/a><br \/><a href='http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/01\/07\/a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-2013-idaho-legislature'>http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/<\/a><\/textarea><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmakers that make up Idaho&#8217;s 2013 state Legislature are older, more educated, more male and more Mormon than the population of Idaho as a whole. That&#8217;s according to demographic data collected by StateImpact Idaho. You can check out the data in the infographic below. For context on what it means to have these demographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":14352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[210],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}