Table 2. Health and demographic characteristics of US States with low, moderate, and high Relative Search Volume (RSV) for abortion in 2018*.
| 1. Low RSV | 2. Moderate RSV | 3. High RSV | t-test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | p-value** | |
| Health Systems Performance Score + | 18.19 | 13.79 | 27.46 | 14.16 | 31.90 | 13.66 | b |
| Cost | 29.94 | 12.36 | 23.08 | 13.83 | 26.00 | 16.55 | |
| Access+ | 21.31 | 16.74 | 26.38 | 12.16 | 30.29 | 14.02 | |
| Health outcomes+ | 11.81 | 7.33 | 29.15 | 16.18 | 34.38 | 10.43 | b, c |
| Number abortion restrictions | 7.75 | 4.61 | 12.15 | 6.79 | 13.10 | 6.02 | b |
| Number of abortion protections | 2.88 | 2.42 | 1.77 | 2.01 | 1.29 | 1.65 | b |
| Number of abortion facilities | 18.94 | 36.78 | 4.85 | 3.39 | 19.57 | 23.13 | |
| Number of women ages 15–49 per abortion facility | 101,197 | 92,505 | 313,316 | 404,700 | 202,094 | 158,179 | |
| % Opine that abortion should be illegal | 0.38 | 0.09 | 0.45 | 0.11 | 0.46 | 0.08 | b |
| % Unintended pregnancy | 45.44 | 4.80 | 49.69 | 4.21 | 54.29 | 4.29 | a, b |
| RSV for birth control (2018) | 70.63 | 3.93 | 76.62 | 6.89 | 81.52 | 7.97 | a, b, c |
| % Population 18–24 years old | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.00 | |
| % Rural population | 25.59 | 16.44 | 28.36 | 15.73 | 25.24 | 12.72 | |
* Low RSV: Hawaii, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Washington, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Nebraska, Alaska, Minnesota
Moderate RSV: New Mexico, Wisconsin, Oregon, Rhode Island, Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Vermont, Kentucky, Nevada, North Dakota
High RSV: Texas, South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Indiana, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Maryland, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
+ lower score denotes better performance
**t-tests denote significant differences between groups using the Dunn-Bonferroni multiple comparison procedure comparing the p-values to .05/3 = .0167
a: p-value for significant differences in group 3 versus group 2
b: p-value for significant differences in group 3 versus group 1
c: p-value for significant differences in group 2 versus group 1