Comparison
Arizona vs Georgia
They differ most on openness — Arizona leads by 53 points. Whether the state publishes in a form a machine can read: an open-data portal that answers; incentive, permit and finance records as data; and newsroom feeds.
This ordering turns on the weighting
The 8 pillars are averaged equally, which is declared rather than tuned. 20,000 other weightings were drawn and the whole table re-ranked under each; restricted to the ones a person could defend — every pillar between 6.25% and 25% of the total — Arizona ranks between 15 and 34 and Georgia between 15 and 38. Arizona is published ahead of Georgia at 28 against 29, but 6,547 of those 20,000 weightings — 32.7% — put Georgia first. The ordering of these two is a property of the weighting as much as of the states. Read the pillars below instead: those are measured, and the weighting does not touch them.
875 of the 1,275 possible pairings of these 51 jurisdictions are reversed by some defensible weighting. Most comparisons a reader can build on this site do not have a defensible ordering, and the ones that do are worth more than the rank beside them.
Pillar by pillar, widest divergence first
- 530Openness53 apart — Arizona 53, Georgia 0
- 3653Productive base17 apart — Arizona 36, Georgia 53
- 7788Starting up11 apart — Arizona 77, Georgia 88
- 4534Population health11 apart — Arizona 45, Georgia 34
- 3745Labour market8 apart — Arizona 37, Georgia 45
- 92100Fiscal standing8 apart — Arizona 92, Georgia 100
- 5864Housing permits and prices6 apart — Arizona 58, Georgia 64
- 3737Prosperitylevel — Arizona 37, Georgia 37
Tax structure
Arizona
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Georgia
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections. Where a state levies no such tax the survey records it, and so does this — the absence is a fact, not a gap.