Table 1.

Description of state-level factors at three time periods for states with or without criminal exposure laws.

	2000		2005		2010
	States with laws (n = 27)	States without laws (n = 23)	States with laws (n = 29)	States without laws (n = 21)	States with laws (n = 30)	States without laws (n = 20)
Median household Income (mean in dollars)	41355.30	42264.43	45321.14	47495.19	48748.54	51577.40
Unemployment rate (mean %)	3.7	4.0	5.1	4.6	9.2	8.1
Percentage of population
Below poverty level (mean %)	10.8	10.7	12.3	11.8	14.7	13.4
Less than HS education (mean %)	14.8	14.2	13.9	12.6	13.3	12.2
Residing in urban areas (mean %)	72.6	68.2	71.5	69.3	72.8	70.6
Hispanic (mean %)	7.1	8.7	8.2	10.5	9.4	12.0
Non-Hispanic white (mean %)	76.4	77.0	74.3	75.5	72.3	74.2
Non-Hispanic black (mean %)	12.5	7.3	13.2	6.4	13.2	6.8