Linking of data on road accidents with those from complementary files : practices and prospects in twelve countries.

This paper focuses on the scope for improving road accident statistics and better exploiting existing data by linking the contents of various files. Ten chapters cover: 1, background and importance of objectives; 2, note on the evolution of the mortality /morbidity relationship; 3, the questionnaire; 4, linkage with public health /medico- legal files; 5, linkage with administrative files; 6, linkage with infrastructure files; 7, linkage with vehicle files; 8, various obstacles to the linking of data; 9, the need to document a number of fruitful case histories.