The availability of seat belt wearing data in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD member countries (1995) : a special report for the Operational Committee of the International Road Traffic and Accident Database IRTAD.

The purpose of this inquiry was not to collect data on seat belt wearing rates but to focus on data availability. The aim is to provide a summary description of data availability, combined with some brief qualitative description of sampling procedures and size, legislation, exemptions within the legislation, and the penalties enforced for non-compliance with the law. Appendix A shows the questionnaire that was sent to OECD member countries participating in the IRTAD system at the end of September 1994. The form shows that the scope of the data investigation concentrated on: (1) five vehicle types - (cars, taxis, light vans, buses and coaches and heavy goods vehicles); (2) a minimum requirement for age bands - (children, subject to a variable age definition, and adults); (3) three road types - (motorways, rural roads, and urban roads); (4) sex of occupants, and (5) seating position - (driver, front seat passenger, and rear seat passenger).