Which states lead — and which fall behind — in public data visibility?
Population-weighted average PDV score by state, 2012–2022.
Rankings shift as federal data programs expand unevenly across states.
Color = Census region.
Northeast
Midwest
South
West
Population-weighted mean PDV | All 51 states + D.C.
2012
2012
Speed:
PDV: Public Data Visibility composite score, 8 domains, 0–4 scale. State score = population-weighted mean of county PDV scores.
Source: Siqi Wei and Xiaoyang Zhu. “Public Data Visibility and the Allocation of Competitive Federal Grants.” Working paper, CSUN, 2026. ·
siqi.wei@csun.edu