Date of Origination: August 10, 1995
Collected by: Paul Martin, Michele Claibourn
Last modification: 11/9/95 by PSM

Description: This dataset is a collection of motorist deaths 
             and safety laws by state.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the 
        United States 1994 (CD-Rom version), Tables 1015, 1020.


Number of observations: 50

 
Variables: There are 12 variables in the data file. 
v1 "State"
v2 "Motorist deaths 1985"
v3 "Motorist deaths 1992"
v4 "Motorist deaths per million miles, 1985"
v5 "Motorist deaths per million miles, 1992"
v6 "Year 21 drinking law"
v7 "Open container drinking law?"
	0=no
	1=yes
v8 "Legal blood alcohol content"
v9 "Mandatory seatbelt law"
	0=no
	1=yes
v10 "Seatbelt law enforcement level"
	1=law can be enforced on its own
	2=only enforced as secondary measure
v11 "Helmet law"
	0=No law
	1=Age requirement
	2=yes
v12 "65 MPH allowed"
	0=no
	1=yes

First three observations from datafile: 
"Alabama"     1005    1001      2.9        2.3     1985          0         .1          1          2          2          1
"Alaska"        124      106       3.2        2.6     1983          1         .1          1          2          1          1
"Arizona"       942       810      4.4        2.3     1984          0         .1          1          2          1          1

Last three observations from datafile:
"WestVirginia" 461     420        3.6        2.5     1986          0         .1          0          .          2          1
"Wisconsin"     777    644        2.1        1.4     1986          1         .1          1          1          1          1
"Wyoming"      145    118        2.7        1.9     1988          0         .1          1          2          1          1