The Going Price for the Tooth Fairy in Every State

How a lot does the tooth fairy pay lately?

We determined to run a tooth fairy ballot of over 1,700 mother and father in the US to seek out out what the common going price is for the tooth fairy in every of the 50 states.

Right here’s what we discovered.

Pattern particulars

Solely US individuals and solely individuals who're mother and father with youngsters beneath the age of 13 we reenrolled within the survey. Contributors had been recruited from each US state with a mean of 35participants recruited from every state. The pattern has a becoming distribution throughout age classes for US mother and father with 15% ages 18-27, 56% ages 28-37, 24% ages 38-47, and 5% age 48 or older. Contributors had been additionally sampled with an equitable gender distribution with 46% male and 54percentfemale respondents. The quickest 5% of the pattern had been eliminated earlier than evaluation to make sure information high quality (as they could have sped by with out paying consideration) leading to a remaining pattern measurement of N=1,788. Contributors had been compensated at a price at the least equal to $15/hour.

Methodology

Contributors had been requested how a lot the tooth fairy presently leaves per tooth of their households. In an effort to arrive at a dependable estimate of the common value in every state, we used a linear mixed-effects regression mannequin. This method permits all info to be integrated into every state’s value estimate with a level of pooling based mostly on the variety of observations per state. This produces outcomes fairly much like taking easy technique of reported costs by individuals in every state however is extra dependable as a result of it additionally incorporates info from costs reported by individuals in different states as a way to stabilize estimates. Within the determine straight beneath you possibly can see how these two approaches to estimating value by state are extremely correlated. I like to recommend reporting the pooled estimates however you should utilize the straightforward means in case you choose. I present columns and graphs for each beneath.