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vexingsilence t1_iqwb3mu wrote

1051 per 1000. Neat trick.

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WhiteyKC OP t1_ir1uent wrote

From the source "How is it possible to have more than 1,000 drivers per 1,000 driving-age individuals? The Federal Highway Administration doesn’t make that clear but we suspect it has to do with data sets that do not perfectly overlap."

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ItsMeFergie t1_iqy8gs0 wrote

Different national minimum driving ages.

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vexingsilence t1_iqy9mo3 wrote

It's a state by state breakdown, NH being over 100%. As others mentioned, they're using inconsistent data sets. So they probably got population per state from one place and the number of licensed drivers from someplace else. Not a great methodology. Minimum driving ages doesn't factor into this, that might skew the overall ranking but not the individual percentages.

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ItsMeFergie t1_iqya0uc wrote

So 53 out of 1053 have moved to a different state but their NH licenses are still in the data set? I mean yeah either way the whole thing is a bit out of wack

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