Useful Stats: NIH Awards by State 1998-2002

In response to recent requests from SSTI sponsors and affiliates, SSTI has compiled a table summarizing total funding distributed within states in the form of grants and awards by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The table <http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/071103t.htm> includes total amounts and state rankings for NIH awards for each of the years 1998-2002.

States are presented in rank order by the percent change for the five-year period. The greatest gains were posted in Idaho (760.86 percent), North Dakota (510.09 percent), South Dakota (424.25 percent), Wyoming (283.59 percent) and Alaska (281.65 percent). Despite the significant growth, these states still hold the five lowest rankings in 2002, as they did in varying order for each of the five years. In fact, no state moved more than three rankings up or down from 1998 to 2002, although there was slightly wider variation in the mid-years. The only movement in the top 14 rankings for the five years occurred in 2002 when Ohio and Illinois flipped positions, ranking 9 and 10 respectively.

Reviewing the results in order of percent change over 1998-2002, reveals some broader geographic distribution of NIH funding. Total NIH awards grew substantially during the period, increasing by 70.02 percent. While every state received more NIH funding in 2002 than in 1998, states above the U.S. total on the table can be seen as increasing their share, relative to NIH's overall growth. Conversely, states below the line "lost" share. Seven of the top 11 states fall below NIH's performance. These seven held 43.11 percent of the total NIH awards in 1998 and only 40.60 percent in 2002.

NIH provides detailed award statistics and information on the website of the Office of Extramural Research: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/award/awardtr.htm  Information for the SSTI Useful Stats table can be found under the Current Data section in the Geographic Area.