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Comparisons of A State with Each Other State

Select a topic and year below. Hover over (or click) a state to see how it compares to others.

States are ordered by topic estimate from highest to lowest, and color indicates
whether each state has a statistically significant difference or does not have a statistically significant difference from another state.

  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
    1 Level of significance for each test = 0.0021: overall level of significance for each state's family of 50 tests = 0.10000.
    2 Data Source: 1-Year Estimates, American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC. Estimates and standard errors were rounded after computing estimated rankings and statistical significance.
    3 Methodology Source: Wright, T., Klein, M., & Wieczorek, J. (2018). "A Primer on Visualizations for Comparing Populations, Including the Issue of Overlapping Confidence Intervals", The American Statistician, 73, 165-178.
    4 Divorce rate estimates for 2018 are not available for Delaware. See https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/errata/120.html.
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