Table 3.

Median and range of state reporting ratios by death investigation system, status of Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law, and year when .08% blood alcohol concentration illegal per se laws were in effect

Variable	No. of states	Median	Lowest (state)	Highest (state)	pa
Death investigation system					.64
Centralized state medical examiner system	16	0.14	0.03 (MD, NH)	0.81 (DE)
Any other systems	34	0.15	0.02 (NV, NJ)	0.60 (KS)
Uniform Policy Provision Law					.29
Prohibited	5	0.32	0.03 (MD)	0.52 (IA)
Permitted or no law	45	0.14	0.02 (NV, NJ)	0.81 (DE)
Year illegal per se laws in effect					.47
Before 1999	15	0.13	0.03 (NH)	0.60 (KS)
1999 or after	35	0.15	0.02 (NV, NJ)	0.81 (DE)

Notes: No. = number.

^ap value of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test of equality of medians between two subgroups.