Here's how we ranked the economies of America's biggest cities

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Here's how we ranked the economies of America's biggest cities

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  • To look closer at the US economy as it varies by metro area, we looked at five measures of economic health.
  • We used those measures to establish to ranking of the 40 biggest metro areas in the US.
  • Cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have some of the strongest economies; cities like Providence and Cleveland have some of the weakest.
  • See the full ranking.

In our ranking of the economies of the 40 biggest metro areas in the US, we looked at five measures of economic health.

Each measure was rescaled to allow us to compare them to one another. Technically, we calculated z-scores for each metro area on each measure, which rescales each variable based on its average and standard deviation.

To make the combined ranking, we added together the five indicator z-scores for each metro area to create an overall economic index.

Here are the sources for each of our measures:

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