Table 4.

Census-weighted same-trait correlations of state-level personality, across samples. Sample pairs grouped by similarities and differences in personality inventories, research projects, and time period.

Sample pair groupa	Sample pair	Consc.	Agree.	Neuro.	Open.	Extra.	Meanb
Inv:S, Proj:S, Time:A	Sample 1 – Sample 2	0.72	0.76	0.80	0.85	0.70	0.77
	SAPA2010 – SAPA2015	0.41	0.47	0.64	0.63	0.65	0.57
	Meanb	0.59	0.64	0.73	0.76	0.68	0.68
Inv:S, Proj:D, Time:S	Sample 3 – Sample 5	0.23	0.05	0.47	0.34	−0.20	0.19
Inv:D, Proj:D, Time:S	Sample 2 – Sample 3	0.45	0.49	0.66	0.62	0.59	0.57
	Sample 2 – Sample 4	0.61	0.28	0.67	0.85	0.21	0.57
	Sample 2 – Sample 5	0.31	0.31	0.45	0.68	−0.11	0.35
	Sample 3 – Sample 4	0.14	0.37	0.64	0.67	0.12	0.41
	Sample 4 – Sample 5	0.27	0.19	0.63	0.65	0.46	0.46
	Sample 2 – SAPA2010	0.27	0.19	0.41	0.48	0.20	0.32
	Sample 3 – SAPA2010	0.12	0.15	0.48	0.19	0.36	0.27
	Sample 4 – SAPA2010	0.21	−0.16	0.53	0.29	0.35	0.25
	Sample 5 – SAPA2010	0.11	−0.23	0.40	0.27	0.17	0.15
	Meanb	0.29	0.18	0.55	0.56	0.27	0.38
Inv:D, Proj:D, Time:A	Sample 1 – Sample 3	0.37	0.53	0.77	0.70	0.56	0.60
	Sample 1 – Sample 4	0.70	0.62	0.74	0.72	0.20	0.62
	Sample 1 – Sample 5	0.30	0.26	0.54	0.53	−0.06	0.33
	Sample 1 – SAPA2010	0.26	−0.02	0.53	0.43	0.27	0.30
	Sample 2 – SAPA2015	0.47	0.41	0.66	0.36	0.25	0.44
	Sample 3 – SAPA2015	0.37	0.22	0.59	0.09	0.21	0.31
	Sample 4 – SAPA2015	0.41	−0.16	0.72	0.18	0.37	0.34
	Sample 5 – SAPA2015	0.43	0.11	0.49	0.22	0.09	0.28
	Meanb	0.43	0.26	0.64	0.43	0.24	0.41
Inv:D, Proj:D, Time:N	Sample 1 – SAPA2015	0.37	0.11	0.76	0.43	0.28	0.42

^aInv = Personality inventory; Proj = Research project; Time = Time period; S = Same; A = Adjacent; D = Different; N = Non-adjacent.

^bA mean was found by converting correlations to z-scores, finding the mean, and converting the mean z-score to a correlation.