NYU Dataset
State Health Policy Research Dataset, 1980-2010
Alternate Titles(s): SHEPRD
UID: 10589
- Description
- The State Health Policy Research Dataset (SHEPRD) covers annual state trends in the adoption of public health laws between 1980 and 2010, inclusive. As described in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), laws of interest were seatbelt laws, speed limits for passenger vehicles on rural interstates, minimum legal drinking ages, drunk driving laws, laws prohibiting the purchase of alcohol on Sundays, regulations for registering purchased kegs and/or prohibitions against selling kegs, beer taxes and total alcohol tax revenues, motorcycle and bicycle helmet laws, cigarette taxes, cigarette advertising bans, bans on workplace smoking, bans on smoking in restaurants and bars, and tobacco taxes (total revenue). The dataset also contains annual data on social, economic, demographic, health care, political, and crime characteristics for each state.
- Timeframe
- 1980 - 2010
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
Access
- Restrictions
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Free to All
- Instructions
- Public-use data are available for download from the ICPSR repository along with relevant documentation. Access does not require membership or affiliation with ICPSR or an ICPSR member institution.
Observational
- Grant Support
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67150/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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