This variable identifies the state if the state or any one of the following is the respondent:

• specified state board or department of education
• city, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
• state commission, board, committee, or authority
• county government or county governmental unit
• state department or agency
• court or judicial district
• governmental employee or job applicant
• female governmental employee or job applicant
• minority governmental employee or job applicant
• minority female governmental employee or job applicant
• retired or former governmental employee
• judge
• state legislature, house, or committee
• local governmental unit other than a county, city, town, township, village, or borough
• governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
• state or U.S. Supreme Court
• local school district or board of education
• state or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
• state college or university

See Petitioner variable for more details.