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Business Indicators
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Rank
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Indicator
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5
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Percent of organizations that have adopted sustainable development goals
|
5
|
Business participation in school and civic events
|
3
|
Office vacancy rate
|
3
|
Percent of companies developing new products or services
|
3
|
State rank in telecommunications technology
|
2
|
New business starts
|
2
|
Number of environmental services, products and technologies exported
|
2
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Percent of GDP from secondary production and business services
|
2
|
Number of building permits issued
|
2
|
Number of business establishments
|
2
|
Government subsidies as percent of gross income
|
1
|
Manufacturing productivity
|
|
|
Children Indicators
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Rank
|
Indicator
|
6
|
Children living in poverty
|
4
|
Students eligible for free or reduced price lunch
|
4
|
Children receiving AFDC
|
4
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AFDC recipients on more than 24 consecutive months
|
|
|
Diversity Indicators
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Rank
|
Indicator
|
6
|
Unemployment rate by ethnicity
|
6
|
Discrimination in the workplace
|
6
|
Occupational distribution of women and minorities
|
6
|
Number of commercial crop varieties
|
5
|
Employment by sector
|
5
|
Employment by top five employers
|
|
|
Employment Indicators
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Rank
|
Indicator
|
7
|
Average age of commercial fish harvesters
|
6
|
Percent of residents who want to work full time who actually work full time
|
5
|
Long-term unemployment
|
5
|
Manufacturing wage and salary jobs as a percent of total jobs
|
5
|
Real unemployment (estimated)
|
4
|
Unemployment rate
|
4
|
Professional, technical and managerial occupations as percent of total
|
4
|
Agricultural employment
|
3
|
Employment rate
|
3
|
Number of green jobs
|
3
|
Total wage and salary jobs per employed resident
|
2
|
Net job growth
|
2
|
Job growth among new businesses
|
2
|
Total wage and salary jobs
|
2
|
Number of jobs in value-added manufacturing
|
|
|
Finance Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
9
|
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
|
7
|
Number and value of business loans in low income area
|
7
|
Percent of products and services where price reflects life-cycle cost
|
7
|
Energy and machinery expenses as percent of gross farm income
|
6
|
Per capita debt
|
6
|
GDP per capita adjusted for natural resource depletion
|
6
|
Environmentally adjusted Net Domestic Product
|
4
|
Percent of GDP spent on research and development
|
3
|
Market value of environmental permits traded or sold
|
2
|
Growth in value added in forest products industry (paper and lumber)
|
2
|
Agriculture value added as a percent of gross sales
|
2
|
Value of business personal property per worker
|
2
|
Annual capital dollars invested in municpal infrastructure
|
1
|
Per capita gross state product as percent of US GNP
|
1
|
Value of industrial and commercial property
|
1
|
Total dollars and dollars per capita deposited in local banks annually
|
1
|
Value of residential and business properties
|
1
|
Value of building permits
|
1
|
Assessed value of real estate per capita, inflation adjusted
|
1
|
Value of goods exported internationally
|
1
|
Gross State Product rate of increase vs. N.E. GSP rate of increase
|
|
|
Income Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
7
|
Distribution of wealth
|
7
|
Percent of jobs that pay a liveable wage for a family of two
|
7
|
Corporate executive to production worker wages (ratio)
|
7
|
Percent of jobs that did not pay a self-sufficiency wage
|
7
|
Income distribution
|
7
|
Percent of disposable personal income that is being saved
|
7
|
Average income of the bottom and top 20 percent
|
6
|
Hours of labor required to meet basic needs
|
6
|
Population areas with poverty more than 1.5 times state rate
|
5
|
People living below the poverty line
|
5
|
Manufacturing wage and salary earnings as a percent of total income
|
5
|
Food stamp recipients
|
5
|
Length of time on welfare
|
4
|
Number or percent of residents receiving welfare assistance
|
4
|
Income disparity among counties
|
4
|
Households with incomes more than 200 percent above poverty line
|
4
|
Population in areas with per capita income less than 70 percent of US
|
2
|
Effective buying income per capita
|
1
|
Personal income per capita
|
1
|
Average earnings per job
|
1
|
Median family income as percent of US median
|
1
|
Cost of living index
|
1
|
Per capita income as percent of state average
|
1
|
Per capita income in non metropolitan areas
|
|
|
Resource Use Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
8
|
Sales of locally produced food at farmers market
|
8
|
Percent of harvested forest successfully restocked
|
6
|
Affordable warmth (average energy efficiency rating of homes)
|
6
|
Annual acreage in field crops
|
6
|
Feed production and use balance
|
5
|
Industrial use of toxic chemicals
|
5
|
Farm acreage
|
4
|
Volume of large sawtimber trees
|
4
|
Fish landings by weight
|
4
|
Key natural resource harvests
|
3
|
Values of key natural resources
|
2
|
Cost of 1,000 kWh of electricity
|
|
|
Sales Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
7
|
Dollars spent in locally-owned businesses
|
3
|
Retail sales per capita
|
1
|
Retail sales as a percent of personal income
|
|
|
Tourism Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
2
|
Value added in hotel and lodging industry
|
1
|
Tourism/bed-tax revenues
|
1
|
Employment in hotel and lodging industry
|
|
|
Transportation Indicators
|
Rank
|
Indicator
|
3
|
Percent of all manufacturing freight transported by rail, air, or water
|
2
|
Containers transported through seaport (TEU's)
|
2
|
Freight shipping availability in nonmetro areas
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