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Increase use of safety belts.

Target: 92 percent.

Baseline: 69 percent of the total population used safety belts in 1998.

Target setting method: 33 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)

Data sources: National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), DOT, NHTSA; Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), CDC, NCCDPHP.

Total Population, 1998 (unless noted)

Safety Belt Use

Percent

TOTAL

69

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

DNC

Asian or Pacific Islander

DNC

Asian

DNC

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DNC

Black or African American

DNA

White

DNA

 

Hispanic or Latino

DNC

Not Hispanic or Latino

DNC

Black or African American

DNC

White

DNC

Gender

Female

DNA

Male

DNA

Education level

Less than high school

DNC

High school graduate

DNC

At least some college

DNC

Select populations

9th through 12th grade students

84 (1999)

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.