The impact of gun violence restraining order laws in the U.S. and firearm suicide among older adults: a longitudinal state-level analysis, 2012–2016

Table 1 Summary of Study Variables

Variable	Mean	SD
Poverty rate (%)	17.88	4.05
Medicaid generosity (% of FPL)	0.94	0.46
Population density (per 1000 county population)	1.11	2.37
Number of firearm laws	26.16	25.3
Older adult (age > 65) population share (%)	13.26	1.11
Female population share (%)	51.00	0.84

Footnotes. This table provides summary statistics for analytic variables over the entire study period (2012–2016) among US states (N = 242). FPL Federal Poverty Line. There were 12 states (5% of

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