State Health Policy Research Dataset (SHEPRD): 1980-2010

This dataset was developed to study trends in the adoption of state public health laws during 1980-2010. Specifically, the dataset covers annual trends in 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 contains information about these laws for each year between 1980 and 2010, inclusive. In addition, it contains variables that describe the social, economic, demographic, health care, political, and crime chacteristics of the states in each of these years.

本数据集旨在探究1980年至2010年间各州公共卫生法规采纳趋势。具体而言，该数据集涵盖了安全带法规、农村高速公路上客运车辆的速度限制、法定最低饮酒年龄、酒驾法规、禁止星期日购买酒精饮料的法律、注册购买的大桶啤酒相关法规及/或禁止销售大桶啤酒的规定、啤酒税及总酒精税收收入、摩托车和自行车头盔法规、烟草税、烟草广告禁令、工作场所吸烟禁令、餐馆和酒吧吸烟禁令以及烟草税（总收入）等年度趋势。数据集包含1980年至2010年（含）每年关于上述法规的信息。此外，它还包括描述各州在这些年份的社会、经济、人口统计、医疗保健、政治和犯罪特征的变量。