This report documents the findings from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s latest survey of community attitudes to road safety. The 2006 Community Attitudes Survey was the nineteenth in the long running survey program. The main purpose of the research is to monitor attitudes to a variety of road safety issues, evaluate specific road safety countermeasures, suggest new areas for intervention and identify significant differences between jurisdictions. The in-scope population for the survey was persons aged 15 years and over. Interviewing, using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) technology, was conducted in March and April 2006. The sample comprised private dwellings across Australia listed in the Electronic White Pages telephone directory. A total of 1,644 interviews were conducted with an average interview length of 17 minutes. A disproportionate stratified sampling methodology was utilised to ensure adequate coverage of the population by age, sex, state/territory and capital city/other locations. The response rate (completed interviews divided by all contacts, excluding those ‘away for survey period’) was 66%. A summary of the main findings from the 2006 survey, along with a description of emerging trends and patterns, is provided below. More detailed results are provided in the main body of this report. (Author/publisher)
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