Case study:
Rising Insurance Premium for the Northeast
You are a journalist for the New York Times. Your specialty is research.
Some reader's have written you complaining that their health insurance premiums are going up while that is not the case for people living in the Midwest. Upon calling several insurance companies (at your reader's prompting), you were told the same thing -
"Those residing in the Northeast compared to those residing in the Midwest live a more risky lifestyle in terms of alcohol consumption, driving habits, etc. As such their premiums unfortunately are going up while those living in the Midwest are not."
You have decided to research this and write an article for the newspaper to either confirm or refute this claim by the insurance companies. You suspect they are not telling the whole story and that the cost difference is most likely a function of the higher cost of living in the Northeast.
Upon searching for various data sources to assist you in this effort, you ran across the Center for Disease Control's "2010 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey." This survey is conducted every 10 years and compiles the following information by state.
Review the file file attached below and answer the questions:
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