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Index
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Overall Rank
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Competitive
Advantages / Disadvantages
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SubIndex/Variable
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Index
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Rank
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Economic
Advantage?
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Government and Fiscal Policy Subindex
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Taxes
as a % of current GSP
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Worker's Compensation Collections Per Employee
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Bond Rating: S&P's/Moody's Composite
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Budget
Surplus as a % of GSP
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Average Benefit per First Payment For
Unemployed
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Full-Time State/Local Government Employees /
100 Residents
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Institutions
and Security Subindex
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Crime
Index, per 100,000 inhabitants
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Crime
Index Change 2003-2004, %
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Murder index, per 100,000 inhabitants
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The
BGA Integrity Index
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Infrastructure
Subindex
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% of Households With Installed Phones
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High-Speed
Lines by State per 1000
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Air
passengers per capita
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Travel
Time to Work
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Electricity Prices per million
BTU
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Average
rent of 2 bedroom apartment
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Human
Resources Subindex
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% of Population without Health Insurance
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% of Population that Graduated from High
School
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Unemployment
Rate
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% of Pop. Enrolled in Degree-Granting
Institutions
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%
of Adults in Labor Force
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Infant Mortality rate, deaths per 1000 live
births
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Rate of Nonfederal Pysicians per 100,000
inhabitants
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Students at/above Proficient in Math, grade 4
public schools, %
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Technology
Subindex
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Academic
R&D per $1,000 GSP
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NIH SUPPORT TO INSTITUTIONS BY
STATE/Population
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Patents,
per 100,000 inhabitants
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Number of S&E graduate students per
100,000 inhabitants
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S&Edegrees awarded per 100,000 inhabitants
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Scientists/engineers as % of Labor Force
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High-technology share of all business
establishments
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Finance
Subindex
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Total
deposits per capita
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Venture capital investment dollars per worker
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Employer firm
births per 100,000 inhabitants
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IPO
Per 1000 Companies, in $
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Percent of Labor Force that is represented by
unions
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Minumum
wage
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Openness
Subindex
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Exports
per capita, dollars
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Incoming
FDI per capita, dollars
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Percent
of population born abroad
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Environmental
Policy Subindex
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Toxic
Release, Pounds per Capita
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions (MTCE/1000 Sq. Miles)
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