Table 4. Health and demographic characteristics of US States with low, moderate, and high Relative Search Volume (RSV) for abortion pill 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 + | 18.31 | 13.03 | 26.88 | 14.92 | 33.41 | 13.05 | b |
| Cost | 28.06 | 14.33 | 23.82 | 13.32 | 27.71 | 16.41 | |
| Access+ | 21.13 | 15.04 | 23.53 | 12.78 | 34.24 | 13.71 | |
| Health outcomes+ | 12.75 | 7.95 | 30.18 | 16.69 | 33.71 | 9.45 | b, c |
| Number abortion restrictions | 8.88 | 5.69 | 13.00 | 6.42 | 11.41 | 6.05 | |
| Number of abortion protections | 2.00 | 2.13 | 1.76 | 1.92 | 2.00 | 2.32 | |
| Number of abortion facilities | 8.44 | 9.16 | 7.65 | 6.92 | 30.12 | 40.03 | b |
| Number of women ages 15–49 per abortion facility | 128,154 | 122,110 | 289,826 | 354,910 | 174,043 | 167,166 | |
| % Opine that abortion should be illegal | 0.41 | 0.08 | 0.45 | 0.11 | 0.44 | 0.09 | |
| % Unintended pregnancy | 44.06 | 3.40 | 51.47 | 3.73 | 54.88 | 3.92 | a, b, c |
| RSV for birth control (2018) | 71.19 | 3.64 | 79.29 | 8.45 | 79.47 | 8.20 | b, c |
| % Population 18–24 years old | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.01 | |
| % Rural population | 32.40 | 15.00 | 26.31 | 13.41 | 20.15 | 13.37 | |
* 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