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              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
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state           byte   %9.0g       sid        State ID (FIPS) Code
year            int    %9.0g                  Year
spircons        float  %9.0g                  Spirits Consumption
unrate          float  %9.0g                  Unemployment Rate
perinc          float  %9.0g                  Per Capita Personal Income
emppop          float  %9.0g                  Employment/Population Ratio
beertax         float  %9.0g                  Tax on Case of Beer
sobapt          float  %9.0g                  % Southern Baptist
mormon          float  %9.0g                  % Mormon
mlda            float  %9.0g                  Minimum Legal Drinking Age
dry             float  %9.0g                  % Residing in Dry Counties
yngdrv          float  %9.0g                  % of Drivers Aged 15-24
vmiles          float  %9.0g                  Ave. Mile per Driver
breath          byte   %9.0g                  Prelim. Breath Test Law
jaild           byte   %9.0g                  Mandatory Jail Sentence
comserd         byte   %9.0g                  Mandatory Community Service
allmort         int    %9.0g                  # of Vehicle Fatalities (#VF)
mrall           float  %9.0g                  Vehicle Fatality Rate (VFR)
allnite         int    %9.0g                  # of Night-time VF (#NVF)
mralln          float  %9.0g                  Night-time VFR (NFVR)
allsvn          int    %9.0g                  # of Single VF (#SVN)
a1517           int    %9.0g                  #VF, 15-17 year olds
mra1517         float  %9.0g                  VFR, 15-17 year olds
a1517n          byte   %9.0g                  #NVF, 15-17 year olds
mra1517n        float  %9.0g                  NVFR, 15-17 year olds
a1820           int    %9.0g                  #VF, 18-20 year olds
a1820n          int    %9.0g                  #NVF, 18-20 year olds
mra1820         float  %9.0g                  VFR, 18-20 year olds
mra1820n        float  %9.0g                  NVFR, 18-20 year olds
a2124           int    %9.0g                  #VF, 21-24 year olds
mra2124         float  %9.0g                  VFR, 21-24 year olds
a2124n          int    %9.0g                  #NVF, 21-24 year olds
mra2124n        float  %9.0g                  NVFR, 21-24 year olds
aidall          float  %9.0g                  # of alcohol-involved VF
mraidall        float  %9.0g                  Alcohol-Involved VFR
pop             float  %9.0g                  Population
pop1517         float  %9.0g                  Population, 15-17 year olds
pop1820         float  %9.0g                  Population, 18-20 year olds
pop2124         float  %9.0g                  Population, 21-24 year olds
miles           float  %9.0g                  total vehicle miles (millions
unus            float  %9.0g                  U.S. unemployment rate
epopus          float  %9.0g                  U.S. Emp/Pop Ratio
gspch           float  %9.0g                  GSP Rate of Change
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THE STATE TRAFFIC FATALITY DATA SET
The data are for the Òlower 48Ó U.S. states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), 
annually for 1982 through 1988.  The traffic fatality rate is the number of 
traffic deaths in a given state in a given year, per 10,000 people living in 
that state in that year. Traffic fatality data were obtained from the U.S. 
Department of Transportation Fatal Accident Reporting System.  
The beer tax is the tax on a case of beer, which is an available measure of 
state alcohol taxes more generally.  The drinking age variables in Table 8.1 
are binary variables indicating whether the legal drinking age is 18, 19, or 20.  
The two binary punishment variables in Table 8.1 describe the stateÕs minimum 
sentencing requirements for an initial drunk driving conviction:  ÒMandatory jail?Ó 
equals one if the state requires jail time and equals zero otherwise, and 
ÒMandatory community service?Ó equals one if the state requires community 
service and equals zero otherwise.  Total vehicle miles traveled annually 
by state was obtained from the Department of Transportation.  Personal income 
was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the unemployment 
rate was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These data were graciously provided to us by Professor Christopher J. Ruhm of 
the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina.