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North Dakota vs Pennsylvania

They differ most on openness — Pennsylvania leads by 44 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.

North Dakota#3750C+Pennsylvania#3251C+

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 — North Dakota ranks between 29 and 43 and Pennsylvania between 26 and 44. Pennsylvania is published ahead of North Dakota at 32 against 37, but 8,859 of those 20,000 weightings — 44.3% — put North Dakota 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.

114263951PA 26–44ND 29–43
The bar spans the ranks a state holds in nine of every ten defensible weightings; the dot is the rank published on this site. The axis runs from 1 to 51.

Pillar by pillar, widest divergence first

  1. 2771Openness44 apart — North Dakota 27, Pennsylvania 71
  2. 6126Housing permits and prices35 apart — North Dakota 61, Pennsylvania 26
  3. 1330Starting up17 apart — North Dakota 13, Pennsylvania 30
  4. 9276Fiscal standing16 apart — North Dakota 92, Pennsylvania 76
  5. 5136Labour market15 apart — North Dakota 51, Pennsylvania 36
  6. 5059Prosperity9 apart — North Dakota 50, Pennsylvania 59
  7. 4755Population health8 apart — North Dakota 47, Pennsylvania 55
  8. 5851Productive base7 apart — North Dakota 58, Pennsylvania 51

Tax structure

North Dakota

Individual income tax levied

Corporate income tax levied

Pennsylvania

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.

North Dakota vs Pennsylvania — State Development Index — Applied America