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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.

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  • Alabama
    25.5
    0.2
  • Alaska
    19.8
    0.5
  • Arizona
    25.7
    0.2
  • Arkansas
    22.7
    0.2
  • California
    29.2
    0.1
  • Colorado
    25.5
    0.2
  • Connecticut
    26.9
    0.2
  • Delaware
    26.8
    0.4
  • District of Columbia
    30.4
    0.5
  • Florida
    28.5
    0.1
  • Georgia
    28.7
    0.1
  • Hawaii
    27.0
    0.3
  • Idaho
    21.9
    0.2
  • Illinois
    28.1
    0.1
  • Indiana
    24.3
    0.1
  • Iowa
    20.0
    0.1
  • Kansas
    20.0
    0.2
  • Kentucky
    24.2
    0.2
  • Louisiana
    25.7
    0.2
  • Maine
    24.3
    0.3
  • Maryland
    31.4
    0.2
  • Massachusetts
    29.9
    0.2
  • Michigan
    24.5
    0.1
  • Minnesota
    22.7
    0.1
  • Mississippi
    25.2
    0.2
  • Missouri
    23.5
    0.2
  • Montana
    20.2
    0.4
  • Nebraska
    19.1
    0.2
  • Nevada
    25.5
    0.2
  • New Hampshire
    27.1
    0.3
  • New Jersey
    31.4
    0.2
  • New Mexico
    23.2
    0.3
  • New York
    32.8
    0.1
  • North Carolina
    25.3
    0.1
  • North Dakota
    18.5
    0.4
  • Ohio
    23.5
    0.1
  • Oklahoma
    22.6
    0.1
  • Oregon
    23.2
    0.2
  • Pennsylvania
    26.5
    0.1
  • Rhode Island
    25.6
    0.4
  • South Carolina
    25.5
    0.2
  • South Dakota
    18.4
    0.4
  • Tennessee
    26.3
    0.2
  • Texas
    27.2
    0.1
  • Utah
    22.6
    0.2
  • Vermont
    24.2
    0.4
  • Virginia
    27.5
    0.1
  • Washington
    26.7
    0.1
  • West Virginia
    27.7
    0.4
  • Wisconsin
    22.5
    0.1
  • Wyoming
    19.5
    0.5
    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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