TUTORIAL ON USING THE NHTSA ENGINE
published June 2000
NOTE
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The following documents are from the NHTSA search engine with links stripped
- they are for explanation only.
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The selections made in the sequence are shown in square brackets. []
THE SEQUENCE OF PAGES.
(A) After clicking on the query, the opening
page is found. You can select the year [1996] on this page, then
click SUBMIT.
(B) The main selector
page is next downloaded. Select [alcohol involvement] [person type]
[restraint system use] [roadway function] [vehicle body type]. Then
SUBMIT
(C) The detail
selector page appears.
(1) & (2) Leave the first two boxes, [all states]
and [all]
(3) select [Driver of a motor vehicle],
(4) leave the next box [all]
(5) select either the seven rural or the seven urban
roads in the RFUN box.
(6) Then select options labelled [1] up to [9] in
the BODY TYPE box.
Multiple selection is possible by holding down the control key.
(D) The Presentation
Selector page appears. Select [cross tab]
(E) The variable
selector page appears. Select [submit]
(F) The grouping
page appears. Accept the defaults [submit]
(G) The answer
page appears. eg.
(1) Add "no seat belt used"
to "improperly used" [1364+6] to obtain 1370 (Table 4a,1997, column 2)
(2) Add "shldr" & "lap"
& "shldr & lap" & "type unk." [31+16+507+40] to obtain 594
(Table 4a,1997, column 5)
And so build up the tables.
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