Incomprehensible, but Intriguing, Statistics

To: Mickey Kaus
Re: Stix Trix

The 2000 census shows 1999 per capita money income in the states you mentioned as:

$23,389, New York
$21,989, Nevada
$19,613, Nebraska
$19,134, Wyoming

and 1999 median household income as:

$44,581, Nevada
$43,393, New York
$39,250, Nebraska
$37,892, Wyoming

And according to the PDF linked to by newsalert (Table 9), the 2003-2004 2-year average median household incomes are:

$46,864, Nevada
$44,577, Wyoming
$44,458, Nebraska
$44,301, New York

Note: the newer figures aren't directly comparable to the older ones, and there isn't a per capita money income by state in the pdf.

This doesn't actually clarify anything, except that it's complicated.