Abstract
accident - sta.tistics - drunkenness - accident preventicn-publicity - sociology - population - fatality -evaluatior (assess-ent) - tU.S.A. -1 ne objectives Of tnls Study Y7ere to select a sroup ofcontrol communities for AS AP comunities and to collectmonthly accident data from them for an eight-year pericd(1968-1975). Twenty comunities zere selected as candi-date controls and then matched with the ASAP cmunitiesba a clustering technique. mhe final data base consistsof data from "2 control comaunities that provided datafOr Lt10St O- tE elght,-yEaT per.Od and CieTE COr:SiCer2C1appropriate controls for one or more of the ASA- coama-nities.