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Abstract:
The 2005 seat belt survey showed a minor improvement in driver wearing rates. Over the 2003 – 2005 period, estimated wearing rates for male drivers increased by one percentage point to 83 per cent, and for female drivers increased by two percentage points to 92 per cent. A minor improvement in the overall front seat (i.e. driver plus front passenger) wearing rates was also recorded. In 2005, 82 per cent of men and 92 per cent of women in front seats were found to have been wearing seat belts, a marginal improvement over the 2003 figures of 81 and 89 per cent respectively.
The September 2002 survey was the first of its kind: the first to measure the seat beltusage rate in rural Canada only. Rural Canada was defined as to...
Rural Canada was defined as towns with a population of fewer than 10,000 but more than 1,000 that are located outside any census metropolitan area or ...
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