Visualization
Firearm Injury Hospitalizations in America
Apr 27, 2021
Estimating State-Level Rates from 2000 to 2016
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One particular challenge for gun policy researchers is the lack of a single resource that provides reliable estimates of state-level firearm injuries over time. The data that do exist are sparse across state-years and cost-prohibitive to access. Deaths caused by firearms are tracked at the state level, but there are questions about whether nonfatal firearm injuries follow similar longitudinal trends as firearm deaths and whether policies affect deaths and injuries in the same manner. As part of the Gun Policy in America initiative, RAND researchers developed a publicly available longitudinal database of state-level estimates of inpatient hospitalizations that occur as a result of firearm injury. This document describes the methods that the researchers used to construct the estimates and provides technical documentation and other information that will facilitate use of the database.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Existing Data Sources and Limitations
Chapter Three
Estimating State Firearm Hospitalizations over Time
Chapter Four
Imputation Methods to Produce State Panel Estimates
Chapter Five
Results
Chapter Six
Discussion and Conclusions
Appendix A
Posterior Distributions of Model Parameters
Appendix B
Data Cleaning
The research described in this report was sponsored by Arnold Ventures and conducted by the Justice Policy Program within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being.
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