Training and Validation Dataset for the Development of Improved Proxy Measures of State-level Household Gun Ownership

This dataset is comprised of a single response variable: state-level estimates of household gun ownership from the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys, averaged over years 2001-2002; and two covariates: (1) FS/S and (2) state-level hunting license rates (HLR). Sheet 1 contains the training data; sheet 2 contains the BFRSS data used for validation.