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  "alt": "Four panels of the same outcome by tenth of counties, ranked by the ADI, the standardized index, median household income and the bachelor's degree share. Under the ADI the outcome is steadily worse toward the more deprived end. Under the degree-share ranking it is no different between the least and the most deprived places.",
  "caption": "Compare the shape of each panel with the ADI panel. A pattern counts as changed when the worse end switches sides, when the two ends differ under one ranking and not the other, or when the rank correlation of bin order and bin mean crosses {fact:alt_rho_cut} and moves by at least {fact:alt_rho_margin}. Each panel plots the births-weighted mean of county shares (the pooled share) in each tenth of counties, with 95% intervals from a bootstrap over counties.",
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      "ranking": "Area Deprivation Index"
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      "ranking": "Area Deprivation Index"
    },
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      "ranking": "Area Deprivation Index"
    },
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      "ranking": "Area Deprivation Index"
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      "ranking": "Area Deprivation Index"
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      "ranking": "Standardized index"
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      "ranking": "Standardized index"
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      "ranking": "Standardized index"
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      "conf_high": 7.32286,
      "conf_low": 6.99382,
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      "n_units": 57,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
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      "conf_high": 7.6399,
      "conf_low": 7.03716,
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      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
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      "conf_low": 7.71293,
      "estimate": 8.01137,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "conf_high": 8.69615,
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      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
    {
      "bin": 6,
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      "n_units": 57,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "bin": 8,
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      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
    {
      "bin": 9,
      "conf_high": 10.4915,
      "conf_low": 9.54726,
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      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "conf_high": 10.6452,
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      "estimate": 9.99451,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Median household income"
    },
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      "bin": 1,
      "conf_high": 7.94569,
      "conf_low": 7.22452,
      "estimate": 7.55219,
      "n_units": 57,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
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      "bin": 2,
      "conf_high": 8.42738,
      "conf_low": 7.66396,
      "estimate": 8.04415,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 3,
      "conf_high": 8.40698,
      "conf_low": 7.56198,
      "estimate": 7.94536,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
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      "bin": 4,
      "conf_high": 8.6024,
      "conf_low": 7.78968,
      "estimate": 8.25908,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 5,
      "conf_high": 8.93375,
      "conf_low": 8.01261,
      "estimate": 8.45557,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 6,
      "conf_high": 9.14503,
      "conf_low": 7.9878,
      "estimate": 8.43167,
      "n_units": 57,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 7,
      "conf_high": 9.41728,
      "conf_low": 8.47605,
      "estimate": 8.9581,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 8,
      "conf_high": 9.38979,
      "conf_low": 8.56145,
      "estimate": 9.01459,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 9,
      "conf_high": 9.6622,
      "conf_low": 8.11559,
      "estimate": 8.84813,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    },
    {
      "bin": 10,
      "conf_high": 8.57516,
      "conf_low": 7.76253,
      "estimate": 8.15626,
      "n_units": 58,
      "ranking": "Bachelor's degree share"
    }
  ],
  "id": "alt_rankings",
  "notes": [
    "Least and most deprived tenth: ADI {fact:alt_adi_least} and {fact:alt_adi_most}, rank correlation {fact:alt_adi_rho}; standardized index {fact:alt_std_least} and {fact:alt_std_most}, {fact:alt_std_rho}; median household income {fact:alt_income_least} and {fact:alt_income_most}, {fact:alt_income_rho}; bachelor's degree share {fact:alt_degree_least} and {fact:alt_degree_most}, {fact:alt_degree_rho}.",
    "The standardized index applies the ADI's coefficients to its measures after standardizing each one, so home value and income carry less weight than in the ADI. Income and degree share are single census measures, each ranked from the highest value to the lowest."
  ],
  "source": "CDC WONDER natality, births in 2018-2024, and Area Deprivation Index 2023; full counts of births, county shares weighted by births (population-weighted); ADI 2023 and ACS 2019-2023 tract tables (B19013, B15003 and the 15 rebuilt ADI measures)",
  "spec": {
    "facet": "ranking",
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n_units",
    "x": "bin",
    "xDomain": [
      1,
      10
    ],
    "xLabel": "Tenth of counties by each ranking (1 = least deprived, 10 = most deprived)",
    "xTicks": [
      1,
      2,
      3,
      4,
      5,
      6,
      7,
      8,
      9,
      10
    ],
    "y": "estimate",
    "yDomain": [
      6.5,
      15
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "yLabel": "Births under 2,500 grams (% of live births)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Births under 2,500 grams (% of live births) by tenth of counties ranked four ways, over the {fact:alt_n_places} counties that have all four rankings",
  "title": "Low birthweight is steadily worse toward the more deprived end under the ADI; the two ends do not differ detectably under the degree-share ranking",
  "type": "line"
}