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State-level household gun ownership proxy dataset, 1949-2020
Megan Kang1,2, Elizabeth Rasich2
1Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 107 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States.
Data in Brief
|September 25, 2023
Summary
This dataset provides an extended proxy for U.S. household gun ownership rates using the firearm suicide rate (FSS) from 1949-2020. It offers state-level, non-self-reported data for public health and policy research.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Criminology
- Sociology
Background:
- Existing measures of U.S. household gun ownership often lack state-level granularity or rely on self-reported data susceptible to bias.
- The rate of firearm suicides divided by all suicides (FSS) has been established as a proxy for gun ownership, but historical data is limited.
Purpose of the Study:
- To expand the existing FSS dataset, providing a longer time series (1949-2020) of state-level household gun ownership proxy data.
- To offer a comprehensive dataset including counts and population-adjusted rates of suicides, firearm suicides, homicides, and firearm homicides for each state and year.
- To facilitate research on the long-term patterns and effects of household gun ownership on public health, social dynamics, and policy.
Main Methods:
- Data compiled from scanned National Center for Health Statistics reports (1949-1972) and CDC's WONDER and WISQARS systems (later years).
- Calculation of the FSS proxy by dividing firearm suicide counts by total suicide counts for each state and year.
- Inclusion of population-adjusted rates for suicides, firearm suicides, homicides, and firearm homicides.
Main Results:
- The dataset extends the FSS proxy for U.S. household gun ownership rates from 1949 to 2020, including newly added data for 1949-1972.
- It provides state-level, year-by-year data on suicide and homicide metrics, including firearm-specific counts and rates.
- This represents the longest-ranging collection of state-level gun ownership proxy rates available, overcoming limitations of self-reported data.
Conclusions:
- The extended FSS dataset offers a valuable, non-self-reported, state-level proxy for household gun ownership over seven decades.
- Researchers can utilize this dataset to analyze historical trends in gun ownership and its impact on public health and societal factors.
- This resource enables deeper investigation into the complex relationship between gun availability and various social and health outcomes.
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