Year
State definitions and policies for calendar year
State definitions and policies for calendar year
State confirmed documents used as sources for coding information for SCAN Policies Database
State participated in verification of coding information for SCAN Policies Database
Census regional code for all states except Puerto Rico, which is given a unique identifier of 999
State Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code
State abbreviation
The errata statement presents corrections applied to previous rounds of data for the SCAN Policies Database. The errata statement provides details about the corrections, including the year and version of the data requiring a correction, the affected variable name and state, the corrected value for each variable, plus the year and version of the data the in which the correction was applied.
Last Updated: January 2025
The protocol has the questions used to collect information about states’ laws and policies for the 2023 data set.
The codebook provides information about each variable in the 2023 data set, including variable names, labels, definitions, protocol number, variable type, and frequencies.
The workbook provides the fact sheet findings in an Excel format.