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Labor Market Information Center

Articles Published in the South Dakota e-Labor Bulletin

Choose one of the categories below to find a list of articles (some available in Adobe PDF format) on that subject published in the South Dakota e-Labor Bulletin.

Businesses & Industries

Demographics of South Dakota's Work Force

Jobs, Occupations & Career Trends

LMI Myth Busting

Program Overviews

Businesses & Industries

2024 South Dakota nonfarm industry trends, February 2025

Past editions of this annual article, collectively providing a recent history of industry trends in South Dakota: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

Accommodating Your Sweet Tooth: workforce stats related to Easter, March 2025

Artificial Intelligence, part 1, November 2023

Artificial Intelligence, part 2, December 2023

Last-minute gift ideas and supporting South Dakota businesses, December 2022

Professional Services industry, December 2024

Serving a tasty annual buffet of industry employment and wage data for you to sample, June 2024

South Dakota Business Response to the Pandemic, March 2022

South Dakota’s Construction Sector: part of South Dakota's economic foundation, August 2023

South Dakota's labor market post-COVID-19 pandemic, May 2024

South Dakota Industry Trends to 2032, July 2024

South Dakota Industries Projected to Decline through 2032, August 2024

Survey results shine light on changes in business practices post-pandemic, April 2023

Valentine's Day: sharing the love with South Dakota businesses, January 2025

Demographics of South Dakota's Workforce

Celebrating South Dakota Veterans, November 2023

Tracking South Dakota worker comings and goings, July 2022

Jobs, Occupations & Career Trends

Employment Trends in Broad Occupational Groups: A Decade of Change, June 2022

Linemen, and teachers, and bakers, oh my! Spooktacular career costume ideas for Halloween, October 2023

South Dakota Hot Careers, November 2024

South Dakota Occupational Projections to 2032, Fastest Growing Occupations, September 2024

South Dakota Occupations in Greatest Demand to 2032, October 2024

What areas of the state have the most job openings?, March 2023

LMI Mythbusting Series

LMI Myth Busting: Benchmarking, January 2020

LMI Myth Busting: Duplication of Effort in Producing Job Levels by Industry, March 2021

LMI Myth Busting: Measuring Employment Change, June 2018

LMI Myth Busting: Seasonal Adjustment, April 2020

LMI Myth Busting: The Source of Occupational Wage Estimates, July 2018

LMI Myth Busting: South Dakota’s Tourism Industry Doesn’t Exist, May 2018

LMI Myth Busting: The Unemployment Rate Represents All of the Population Who Does Not Have a Job, April 2019

Program and Resource Overviews

Benchmarking, January 2024

Consumer Price Index: An Inside Look at Average Price Data, July 2023

Consumer Price Index, January 2022

DLR: giving the gift of education (workforce services available from DLR), December 2022

Industry or occupation: The importance of definitions in using workforce data, January 2023

Largest Businesses in South Dakota, March 2024

Measuring COVID-19’s Impact on South Dakota’s Labor Market, March 2020

Measuring COVID-19’s Impact on South Dakota’s Labor Market (update), April 2020

NAICS: Reflecting Dynamics of the Economy, April 2022

Navigating through South Dakota employment and wage data to find the destination data you need, June 2023

New South Dakota data set provides another indicator of the labor economy (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, JOLTS), May 2022

OnTheMap tool to map South Dakota workforce statistics, April 2024

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: the premier data slicer/dicer, June 2022

South Dakota featured in national blog for success in connecting individuals with second chances, May 2023

Tools for Choosing the Right Career, April 2025