Seatbelt and Mobile Phone Usage Survey Scotland, 2014

Appendix A.

Additional Seatbelt Survey Tables

Table A.1: Car occupant seatbelt use, weekdays[22]
Seat position Scotland 2009 England 2014 Great Britain 2014 Scotland 2014 2014
Scotland Sample size
Driver 95% 98.2% 98.2% 97.8% 4,757
Front seat passenger 97% 96.1% 96.7% 98.0% 1,361
Rear seat passenger 88% 87.7% 90.6% 99.0% 467

Table A.2: Male car occupant seatbelt use by age, weekdays
Seat Position Age Seatbelt use Sample size
Driver 17-29 97.8% 152
30-59 97.6% 1,906
60+ 98.2% 612
Front seat passenger 0-13 93.5% 53
14-29 100% 71
30-59 98.5% 229
60+ 97.8% 83
14+ 98.6% 383
Rear seat passenger 0-13 99.0% 105
14+ 100% 73

Table A.3: Female car occupant seatbelt use by age, weekdays
Seat Position Age Seatbelt use Sample size
Driver 17-29 99.0% 250
30-59 98.3% 1,469
60+ 97.6% 292
Front seat passenger 0-13 94.5% 46
14-29 97.5% 152
30-59 97.8% 401
60+ 100% 267
14+ 98.5% 820
Rear seat passenger 0-13 100% 80
14+ 98.6% 104

Table A.4: Car front seat passenger seatbelt use by area and road type, weekdays
Area type Road type Scotland 2014 2014 Scotland Sample size
Urban Major 99.2% 388
Minor 96.9% 278
All 98.0% 666
Rural Major 98.2% 512
Minor 97.5% 183
All 98.0% 695

Table A.5: Car occupant seatbelt use by time of day, weekdays
Time Driver Sample size Front seat passenger Sample size Rear seat passenger Sample size
07:30 96.6% 490 97.5% 61 100% 11
08:30 98.5% 590 98.1% 122 100% 46
09:30 99.3% 431 94.0% 97 100% 31
10:30 97.8% 497 99.6% 148 95.8% 41
11:30 97.2% 520 98.3% 175 98.7% 50
13:30 97.4% 377 96.8% 160 100% 54
14:30 98.5% 439 99.0% 153 98.4% 54
15:30 97.5% 424 99.1% 156 100% 62
16:30 97.9% 476 98.5% 135 100% 55
17:30 97.7% 513 97.6% 154 98.2% 63

Table A.6: Car occupant seatbelt use by time of week
Seat position Weekday Sample size Weekend Sample size
Driver 98.7% 1423 98.5% 853
Front seat passenger 98.3% 451 98.5% 400
Rear seat passenger 100% 191 95.2% 151

Table A.7: Child car occupant restraint use by age, weekdays
Restraint Front seat passenger Rear seat passenger
1 - 4 years old 5 - 9 years old 1 - 4 years old 5 - 9 years old
Seatbelt 34.6% 7.4% 22.9%
Any Child seat: correct use 58.3% 92.6% 76.4%
Any Child seat: incorrect use 1.7% - -
Unrestrained 5.4% - 0.7%
Sample size * 72 51 147

* The sample of children aged 1-4 years old in the front seats was too small to present results.