{
  "alt": "Dumbbell chart of eight outcomes from infant mortality to life expectancy, each with a dot for the least and the most deprived end placed by the ratio to the national value on a log scale. Infant mortality, distance to a college, mortgage denial, residents per primary care physician and life expectancy sit farther from the national value at the most deprived end; incarceration of Black children, smoking and homicide by tract sit farther at the least deprived end.",
  "caption": "Read each row from the national line outward: the open dot is the least deprived end and the filled dot the most deprived end, to the right where the outcome is higher than the national value and to the left where it is lower. Eight of the outcomes in the chapter How far one ranking goes, from birth to life expectancy, each on the ranking its own chapter uses.",
  "data": [
    {
      "domain": "Birth and school",
      "least": 0.706,
      "least_value": "4.0",
      "most": 1.547,
      "most_value": "8.8",
      "outcome": "Infant mortality",
      "unit": "Infant deaths per 1,000 live births",
      "us_value": "5.7"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Becoming an adult",
      "least": 0.635,
      "least_value": "6.1",
      "most": 3.054,
      "most_value": "29.3",
      "outcome": "Distance to a four-year college",
      "unit": "Miles to the nearest four-year campus, average resident",
      "us_value": "9.6"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Becoming an adult",
      "least": 0.735,
      "least_value": "3.8",
      "most": 1.23,
      "most_value": "6.4",
      "outcome": "Incarceration, Black children from low-income families",
      "unit": "Percent incarcerated on April 1, 2010",
      "us_value": "5.2%"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Home, work and money",
      "least": 0.869,
      "least_value": "7.8",
      "most": 1.536,
      "most_value": "13.8",
      "outcome": "Mortgage denial rate",
      "unit": "Denied share of decided applications (%)",
      "us_value": "9.0%"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Health and care",
      "least": 0.625,
      "least_value": "9.1",
      "most": 1.573,
      "most_value": "22.8",
      "outcome": "Current smoking",
      "unit": "Percent of adults",
      "us_value": "14.5%"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Health and care",
      "least": 0.869,
      "least_value": "1,159",
      "most": 2.046,
      "most_value": "2,730",
      "outcome": "Residents per primary care physician",
      "unit": "Residents per provider",
      "us_value": "1,334"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Early death",
      "least": 0.324,
      "least_value": "1.8",
      "most": 2.724,
      "most_value": "14.8",
      "outcome": "Homicide death rate, tracts",
      "unit": "Homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year",
      "us_value": "5.4"
    },
    {
      "domain": "Early death",
      "least": 1.045,
      "least_value": "82.3",
      "most": 0.94,
      "most_value": "74.0",
      "outcome": "Life expectancy at birth",
      "unit": "Life expectancy at birth (years)",
      "us_value": "78.8"
    }
  ],
  "id": "ends_vs_us",
  "notes": [
    "Eight of the rows of the chapter How far one ranking goes, chosen to cover the stages of life: five where the most deprived end lies farther from the national value and three where the least deprived end does, about the share in the full set. The chapter shows all of them and counts which end lies farther.",
    "The national value pools all the places of each comparison into one bin, with the estimator and weights of its chapter, and is published there. It covers the places that the chapter ranks, so places without a rank or an estimate are left out."
  ],
  "source": "Figures of the chapters named in each row, data years 1978 to 2024 as each chapter states; estimates as published there: full counts, crude rates, population-weighted means, unweighted survey means or modeled estimates.",
  "spec": {
    "delta": false,
    "label1": "Least deprived end",
    "label2": "Most deprived end",
    "reference": 1,
    "referenceLabel": "United States",
    "sort": "data",
    "x1": "least",
    "x2": "most",
    "xDomain": [
      0.2,
      4
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "suffix": "×"
    },
    "xLabel": "End of the ranking divided by the national value (log scale)",
    "xScale": "log",
    "xTicks": [
      0.25,
      0.5,
      1,
      2,
      4
    ],
    "y": "outcome"
  },
  "subtitle": "Mean at each end of the ranking each chapter uses, divided by the value for all the places of the comparison, on a log scale so that twice and half the national value sit the same distance from it",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "domain",
        "label": "Domain"
      },
      {
        "key": "outcome",
        "label": "Outcome"
      },
      {
        "key": "least_value",
        "label": "Least deprived end"
      },
      {
        "key": "us_value",
        "label": "United States"
      },
      {
        "key": "most_value",
        "label": "Most deprived end"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 2
        },
        "key": "least",
        "label": "Least deprived end divided by the US value"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 2
        },
        "key": "most",
        "label": "Most deprived end divided by the US value"
      },
      {
        "key": "unit",
        "label": "Unit"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "The most deprived places usually stand farther from the national value than the least deprived places do",
  "type": "dumbbell",
  "width": "full"
}