Bibekdeb Roy (left) and Laveesh Bhandari
If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Second, you can use objective data. There's a third alternative of splicing subjective and objective, but that's neither here nor there. We used the objective route, relying solely on data from Central sources, so that non-comparability of data across states was not an issue.
