During the course of a study of the misuse of child restraints, both the contractor and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) decided that there would be substantial benefit in bringing together the State site coordinators at the conclusion of the project to review the study results with NHTSA. This two-day workshop took place in December 2003 in Washington, DC. The workshop discussion is summarized in this Research Note. Also contained in the Research Note are workshop recommendations and the results of several additional analyses of the data beyond those contained in the contractor final report. These results include: type of restraint used by age, in 1-year intervals, of children weighing less than 80lb; restraint use of children less than 80 lb by number of children (younger than 13 years of age) in the vehicle; restraint use of children less than 80 lb by socioeconomic category; and child restraint system critical misuse, by socioeconomic category, of children weighing less than 80 lb.
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