Road safety survey 1990

SND-ID: SND 0560

This study is part of the collection Road safety survey

Alternative title

TS-enkäten 1990

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

National Road Safety Office

Description

This is the tenth study in a series of annual surveys on road safety conducted since 1981. The study is conducted by Statistics Sweden on behalf of the Traffic Safety Board, which had the overall responsibility for road safety in Sweden in 1990. Today the study is conducted on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration.

The study aims to identify and analyse traffic safety statistics. This is done by a written questionnaire directed to a stratified sample of the population. The study from 1990 had a 77,9 percent response rate and a sample of 5 595 randomly selected people aged between 15 and 74 years. Since 1985 the age group -75 to 84 returns with four to five years.
The questions in the study include, for example, traffic behaviour and traffic patterns; attitudes to road safety and traffic rules, the relation between alcohol and traffic and child safety in traffic. Both motor traffic, bicycle and foot traffic is concerned. A total of 29 questions are used, including descriptive questions, estimation questions and attitude questions.

Purpose:

The survey aims to identify and analyse tra

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Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Individuals aged 15-84 years and residing in Sweden

Sampling procedure

Probability: Stratified
A sample of 5 595 individuals, stratified after seven age groups, was drawn from the Statistic Sweden register over the total population (RTB).

Time period(s) investigated

1990-10 – 1990-12

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Municipality

Highest geographic unit

Country

Publications
Dataset
Road safety survey 1990

Associated documentation

Version 2.0

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Citation

National Road Safety Office. Swedish Transport Administration (2002). Road safety survey 1990. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/000934

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

National Road Safety Office

Time period(s) investigated

1990-10 – 1990-12

Collection methodology

Postal questionnaire with three written reminders.

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1990-10–1990-12
  • Data collector: Statistics Sweden
  • Instrument: Questionnaire
  • Source of the data: Population group

Weighting

Variable 6 can be used as a weight to make the data representative of the whole population.

Variables

133

Number of individuals/objects

4358

Response rate/participation rate

77.9%

Published: 1996-01-01
Last updated: 2019-02-06