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J. Lee Annest, Ph.D. Director, Office of Statistics and
Programming
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
TMTM
Using FARS data to Classify Unspecified MV-traffic Deaths by
Person Type in NVSS data
How many MV-traffic deaths are occupants in the vehicle?
The Question
In 2001, almost 35% of 42,443 MV-traffic deaths in the NVSS were unspecified for person type (occupant, motorcyclist, pedal cyclist, pedestrian, other)
Current death certificate used in most states not set up to routinely capture person type
New death certificate has a separate data item that should help classify MV traffic deaths by person type (needs to be assessed)
The Problem
Use data from the Fatal Analysis Reporting System (FARS) to allocate unspecified MV-traffic deaths into specified person type categories (occupant, motorcyclist, pedal cyclist, pedestrian, other)
One Possible Solution
Use the known distribution of FARS deaths for specified person type to determine where to allocate the unspecified MV-traffic deaths in the NVSS.
Method
First, allocate unspecified deaths into specified person type categories other than occupant
Then, put the remaining unspecified MV-traffic deaths into occupant.
Allocation Process
1. Distribute MV-traffic deaths into person type categories within specific age-by-sex groupings
2. Allocate unspecified deaths into person type categories other than occupant as follows:> If the number of specified death is higher in FARS than NVSS, then change NVSS to the higher number> If the number of specified deaths is higher in NVSS than FARS, then do not change NVSS
Allocation Rules Applied
Pedal cyclist (Males 15-19 years)
Deaths
Data Source Observed Allocated
FARS 66 --
NVSS 57 66
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Redistributed unspecified = 9
Example
Pedestrian (Females 1-4 years)
Deaths
Data Source Observed Allocated
FARS 35 --
NVSS 56 56
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Redistributed unspecified = 0
Example
3. Allocate the remaining unspecified deaths to the occupant category
4. Sum deaths across age-by-sex groupings to get final numbers: overall and by broader age and sex groups.
5. After allocation, the distributions of MV-traffic deaths by person type should be very similar for FARS and NVSS
Allocation Rules Applied
Allocation procedure works well for obtaining national estimates
Procedure not tested for state and local estimates; need to consider:
> FARS deaths – reported by where the fatal crash occurred
> NVSS deaths – often reported by place of residence rather than place of occurrence
Conclusions