{"id":5586,"date":"2012-03-14T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2013-07-18T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:19:20","slug":"data-debacle-blaine-countys-true-top-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/14\/data-debacle-blaine-countys-true-top-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Debacle: Blaine County’s True Top Employer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jessica Pupovac \/ NPR StateImpact<\/p>

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<\/strong>One of our readers recently asked why the Sun Valley Resort <\/a>isn’t one of Blaine County’s top employers.\u00a0 Data from the Idaho Labor Department shows the Blaine County School District is the biggest employer in that county.<\/p>\n

Back in January we posted this map<\/a>, which shows the top five employers in each county.\u00a0 We wanted to see how many<\/del> top<\/strong> employers were government entities and how many were private companies. <\/p>\n

The data for the map<\/a> came directly from the Idaho Department of Labor. <\/del>The most recent figures available, or an average number of employees between October 2010 and September 2011 were used to make the map.\u00a0 It’s up to each company to report that info to the state.<\/p>\n

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Marc Muench \/ Getty Images<\/p>

The Sun Valley Lodge in Sun Valley, Idaho<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve since learned 11 of Idaho’s top 50 private companies have requested this data be omitted from the public record.\u00a0 Sun Valley Resort is one of them.\u00a0 Sun Valley spokesman Jack Sibbach says the resort didn’t know it’s data wasn’t<\/em> public. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sibbach says the Resort’s employee count is about 1,600 during the peak winter tourism season.\u00a0 Sibbach estimates the average annual employee count is between 900 and 1,000.\u00a0 Having this info, the Sun Valley Resort easily slides into the top employer spot<\/a> for Blaine County.<\/p>\n

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One of our readers recently asked why the Sun Valley Resort isn’t one of Blaine County’s top employers.\u00a0 Data from the Idaho Labor Department shows the Blaine County School District is the biggest employer in that county. Back in January we posted this map, which shows the top five employers in each county.\u00a0 We wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,12],"tags":[18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586"}],"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=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17920,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/17920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}