HOW TO CONDUCT A SAFETY BELT SURVEY: A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

This guidebook is designed for those interested in determining the safety belt use rate of a selected geographic area using a direct observation survey. A "cookbook" format is adopted so that those with little or no background in experimental design can still acquire a belt use rate that is representative and scientifically valid for the area of interest. Once decisions are made about the scope of the survey, a step-by-step procedure can be followed to design, conduct, and analyze the survey. It will take approximately six to eight person-hours to design the survey and another three or four person-hours to analyze the results. Training will require about four hours per observer. The rest of the survey time is spent out in the field observing safety belt use. In general, it takes about 1.5 hours for each site that will be surveyed.

  • Corporate Authors:

    University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

    2901 Baxter Road
    Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109-2150
  • Authors:
    • Eby, D W
    • Streff, F M
  • Publication Date: 1994

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: 34 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00716841
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 404
  • Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
  • Created Date: Feb 20 1996 12:00AM