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Motor Vehicle Accidents--Number and Deaths: 1980 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1071)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
Except as noted, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, http://www.nsc.org/

Except as noted, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL,

Injury Facts, annual (copyright). See Internet site

< http://www.nsc.org/ >

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

Except as noted, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

Except as noted, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL,

Injury Facts, annual (copyright). See Internet site

< http://www.nsc.org/ >

For more information

http://www.nsc.org/

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Covers only accidents occurring on the road. Data are estimated. Year-to-year
    comparisons should be made with caution.
  2. Deaths that occur within 1 year of accident.
    Includes collision categories not shown separately.
  3. Within 30 days of accident. Source: U.S. National Highway Traffic
    Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts, annual; and
    unpublished data. See Internet site
    < http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html >.
    1996 includes 2 fatalities of uknown person type—occupant or nonoccupant.
  4. See footnotes 1 and 2 in Table 1075.
  5. Includes motorized cycles.
  6. Based on 30-day definition of traffic deaths.

Headnotes

[17.9 represents 17,900,000]

Shape

table: [39, 16]

Snippet

ACCIDENTS
Motor vehicle accidents 1 Million 17.9 19.3 11.5 10.7 11.2 13.8 12.7 11.4 13.4 12.5 18.3 11.8 10.9 10.7
Vehicles involved:
Cars Million 22.8 25.6 14.3 12.3 13.3 16 13.8 11.6 15.9 13.6 18.1 11.5 10.84 (NA)
Trucks Million 5.5 6.1 4.4 4.5 4.8 7.7 7.3 6.2 8.8 7.4 12.2 8.2 8.08 (NA)
Motorcycles 1,000 560 480 180 152 135 138 100 70 130 119 190 150 150 (NA)
DEATHS
Motor vehicle deaths within 1 year 2 1,000 53.172 45.901 46.814 43.363 43.649 43.458 43.501 42.401 43.354 43.788 45.38 44.1 46.2 45.8
Noncollision accidents 1,000 (NA) (NA) 4.9 4.4 4.6 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.3 5.1 5.2 5.3
Collision accidents:
16=. … snip
Injury Facts, annual (copyright). See Internet site
<http://www.nsc.org/>

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.
  • (Z) Fewer than 50.

Tablenum

1071

Year

2008

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