Impact Investment slide in which all the states of America are rated for the impact that can be achieved through investments.

1. AMERICA’S GREATNESS INDEX
Team - 1
Pallavi Acharya
Ting-Wei Lee
Shubham Saraswat
Rishabh Verma

2. ❖ It rates individual states of United States of
America for Investment that can be made to
have Social Impact as well as generate
Returns for the Investors.
❖ Social Impact is incorporated in terms of
Poverty, Unemployment and Education level.
❖ Return is conceptualized in terms of the GDP
of the state which is further dependent on
three major sectors namely Finance Industry,
Health Industry and the Government.
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

3. What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

4. ❖ Measuring the greatness of a country by the
quality of its people's lives: UNFPA Executive
Director.
❖ Quality of people’s lives can be measured in terms
of 8 indicators.
❖ Out of those top 8 indicators we selected the best
3 indicators for our index
❖ Source :
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Quality_of_life_indicators_-_me
asuring_quality_of_life
Population Education GDP
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

5. Variable Name Description of Data
Poverty It contains data of poverty in each state compared to total
poverty in USA (in percentage)
Unemployment It contains data of unemployment in each state compared to total
in USA (in percentage)
Rural education It contains data of Rural Education status in each state compared
to total total in USA (in percentage)
Urban education It contains data of Urban Education status in each state compared
to total total in USA (in percentage)
Finance It contains data of Finance Industry's contribution in GDP for
each state compared to total in USA (in percentage)
Health It contains data of Health Industry's contribution in GDP for each
state compared to total in USA (in percentage)
Government It contains data of Government Industry's contribution in GDP
for each state compared to total in USA (in percentage)
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

6. Index
Population
Education
GDP
Poverty Unemployment
UrbanRural
Finance Health
Government
0.9 0.64 0.970.96
0.98
0.620.95
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

7. ❖ Method
➢ Step1 : Compute the Mean for all the variables.
➢ Step2 : Compute the Standard Deviation for all the variables.
➢ Step3 : Compute Coefficient of Variation (C.O.V) for all the variables
as per the formula shown.
➢ Step4 : Convert the C.O.V’s calculated above into respective weights.
❖ Formula
➢ Coeff. Of Var. = (Standard Deviation/ Mean)
❖ Values
Variable Value
Poverty 0.21
Unemployment 0.04
Rural 0.03
Urban 0.05
Finance 0.25
Health 0.21
Government 0.21
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

8. State Score State Score State Score State Score State Score
AB 1.2 HW 0.5 MC 2.4 NC 2.6 UT 0.8
AL 0.4 ID 0.4 MN 1.7 ND 0.3 VT 0.3
AZ 1.8 IL 3.8 MS 0.7 OH 3.1 VA 2.6
AK 0.7 IN 1.6 MO 1.6 OK 1 WA 2.1
CA 11.7 IO 0.9 MT 0.3 OR 1.1 WV 0.5
CO 1.5 KS 0.8 NE 0.6 PA 3.7 WI 1.6
CT 1.4 KT 1.1 NV 0.8 RI 0.5 WY 0.2
DL 0.5 LS 1.1 NH 0.5 SC 1.2
DC 0.8 ME 0.4 NJ 2.9 SD 0.3
FL 5 MD 2.2 NM 0.7 TN 1.7
GA 2.5 MA 2.6 NY 7.8 TX 6.4
What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

9. Overall Index Score Distribution
❖ CA, NY and TX have the highest
scores depicting that investing in
them will have higher scope of
returns compared to social impact.
❖ ND, SD, VT, WY have the lowest
scores depicting that investing in
them will have more scope in social
impact than the returns.

10. What is It?
The Result
Dimensions
Variables
Correlations
Weights
Final Score
Q & A

11. Barplot of Poverty

12. Barplot of Unemployment

13. Barplot of Urban education

14. Barplot of Rural education

15. Barplot of GDP from Finance industry

16. Barplot of GDP from Government

17. Barplot of Health Industry

18. Scatterplot for Population and Poverty

19. Scatterplot for Rural Education

20. Scatterplot for Urban Education

21. Scatterplot for GDP from Health Industry

22. Scatterplot for GDP from Finance Industry

23. Scatterplot for GDP from Government