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Comparative standings in the most vital Benchmarks
Sunday, December 31, 2000
The final 2000 PG Benchmarks results for 12 categories are presented in two ways on this page. Immediately below, they are reduced to numbers, allowing the regions to be ranked. Pittsburgh is sixth among the 15 regions. Rankings, however, can be misleading. For example, a fourth-place baseball team in a five-team division sounds like a poor performer. But that team might be only a game out of first in a division with four equally good teams. To provide a more meaningful view, we also depict the distribution of each region's score in each category on a standardized basis. This is in the large graphic below. Standardizing the raw data offers a way of comparing data, where some categories are described in dollars per capita, others as percent change and others as indexes. We standardized the raw data by subtracting the average (across regions) in each category from the individual region's score, then dividing by the standard deviation for that series of scores. The standardization assumes that each category follows a uniform distribution around 100 and that the scores will tend to cluster around 100.
Final Ranking:
1. Minneapolis/St. Paul -- 105.8
The Numbers:
The Cities
Job
Entrepreneurial Vitality
Productivity
Personal Income
1999 Crime
Welfare (Temporary assistance to needy families)
Cost of Living
The Arts
University Quality
National Institutes of Health Funding 1999
Bond Ratings
United Way Contributions
Final Ranking
The Cities
Atlanta
107.7
108.8
104.8
106.3
95.4
104.5
88.7
106.7
117.5
98.9
97.3
96.4
102.8
Atlanta
Cincinnati-Hamilton
91.7
99.8
89.5
94.6
na
99.7
106.5
91.9
93.4
94.5
104.9
110.8
97.9
Cincinnati-Hamilton
Cleveland-Akron
94
99.7
95
97.6
na
86.8
103.1
92.8
102.4
100.4
99.8
102.7
97.7
Cleveland-Akron
Denver-Boulder-Greeley
104.4
99.3
102.7
117.5
106.6
114.8
93.3
102.7
98.8
100.1
102.3
89.8
102.7
Denver-Boulder-Greeley
Kansas City
97.6
94.5
93
96.7
na
96.8
114.7
101.6
90.4
91.3
97.3
99.5
97.6
Kansas City
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
103.6
106.4
98.3
85.7
83.3
101.2
103.7
91.7
92.8
93.3
77.2
96.3
94.5
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
Milwaukee-Racine
98.5
94.4
96.7
104.1
103
114
99.6
98.9
92.8
92.9
99.8
96.6
99.3
Milwaukee-Racine
Minneapolis-St. Paul
99.3
103.7
95.4
117.8
105.8
87.7
94.6
129.4
112.7
99.1
112.4
112.1
105.8
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Phoenix-Mesa
108.1
100.3
99.7
89.3
91.5
100.8
102.7
96
89.8
89.5
102.3
89.8
96.6
Phoenix-Mesa
Pittsburgh
90.8
95.9
100.4
95.3
117.5
97.7
102.9
101.8
116.3
105
79.7
101.5
100.4
Pittsburgh
Portland-Salem
103.7
96.9
105.4
96.6
98.9
107.4
93.1
99.2
89.8
95.8
107.4
na
99.5
Portland-Salem
St. Louis
88
100.5
85.4
99.2
na
84.3
107.5
103.3
103.6
106.5
104.9
102.4
98.7
St. Louis
San Diego
102.8
104.9
127.2
93.3
111.6
87
82
92.1
109.6
124.6
104.9
82.8
101.9
San Diego
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton
98.2
97.3
111.9
114.5
95.3
109
88.9
105.2
100.6
117.5
112.4
119.4
105.8
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton
Tampa-St. Petersburg
111.6
97.7
94.6
91.5
91.1
108.3
118.7
86.8
89.8
90.5
97.3
na
98
Tampa-St. Petersburg
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