Comparison
Louisiana vs Rhode Island
They differ most on population health — Rhode Island leads by 77 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.
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 — Louisiana ranks between 44 and 49 and Rhode Island between 34 and 50. Rhode Island is published ahead of Louisiana at 46 against 48, but 6,579 of those 20,000 weightings — 32.9% — put Louisiana 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
- 784Population health77 apart — Louisiana 7, Rhode Island 84
- 1064Prosperity54 apart — Louisiana 10, Rhode Island 64
- 639Housing permits and prices54 apart — Louisiana 63, Rhode Island 9
- 6517Starting up48 apart — Louisiana 65, Rhode Island 17
- 4133Productive base8 apart — Louisiana 41, Rhode Island 33
- 6163Labour market2 apart — Louisiana 61, Rhode Island 63
- 8484Fiscal standinglevel — Louisiana 84, Rhode Island 84
- 00Opennesslevel — Louisiana 0, Rhode Island 0
Tax structure
Louisiana
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Rhode Island
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.