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. 2015 Apr 3;64(12):313–317.

TABLE 2.

Percentage of high school students aged ≥16 years who reported driving a car or other vehicle during the 30 days before the survey, by age — Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, 42 states and 21 large urban school districts,* 2013

≥16 yrs 16 yrs 17 yrs ≥18 yrs




Site % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI
State surveys
Alabama 88.5 83.6–92.1 84.3 76.8–89.8 92.3 86.1–95.8 90.0 84.6–93.7
Alaska 73.0 69.2–76.5 63.2 57.0–68.9 77.5 72.7–81.6 81.3 71.2–88.4
Arizona 68.4 62.2–74.0 67.1 60.6–73.1 66.6 58.2–74.1 72.7 63.5–80.3
Arkansas 82.6 77.5–86.7 80.2 71.4–86.7 81.7 77.3–85.5 87.5 79.6–92.6
Connecticut 67.7 63.8–71.4 55.4 50.5–60.1 75.3 70.2–79.8 78.0 70.0–84.4
Delaware 80.2 77.5–82.6 74.6 70.3–78.4 85.6 82.6–88.2 82.6 76.4–87.4
Florida 74.8 72.6–76.8 69.2 66.4–71.9 75.8 72.9–78.4 82.7 79.5–85.5
Georgia 74.7 69.7–79.2 70.8 65.0–75.9 73.5 64.6–80.9 82.1 77.0–86.3
Hawaii 53.8 49.4–58.2 43.6 38.0–49.3 63.1 58.0–67.8 57.9 49.1–66.2
Idaho 84.0 81.4–86.3 82.0 78.7–84.9 85.0 80.7–88.6 85.7 80.2–89.9
Illinois 80.8 76.8–84.3 79.0 73.0–83.9 80.9 76.3–84.7 83.6 77.1–88.6
Kansas 86.1 83.2–88.6 81.1 77.3–84.4 88.4 83.3–92.0 91.6 85.7–95.2
Kentucky 77.7 72.4–82.2 73.1 66.4–78.9 79.8 73.2–85.0 82.7 71.5–90.1
Louisiana 78.7 74.6–82.3 75.4 66.9–82.3 80.7 75.8–84.8 80.8 69.7–88.5
Maine 75.8 74.0–77.4 71.9 69.7–74.0 79.8 77.4–82.1 75.7 72.9–78.3
Maryland 65.9 64.6–67.2 58.1 56.6–59.6 71.4 69.7–73.0 73.0 70.9–75.0
Massachusetts 66.1 61.9–70.0 53.3 48.6–58.0 73.2 66.9–78.8 78.2 72.5–83.0
Michigan 82.4 78.7–85.6 76.6 71.8–80.8 86.0 81.4–89.6 87.4 82.9–90.8
Mississippi 83.6 78.0–88.0 79.7 70.7–86.5 87.0 80.5–91.6 87.4 81.4–91.6
Missouri 84.7 79.1–89.0 83.4 77.4–88.0 83.8 76.8–89.0 88.7 73.5–95.7
Montana 88.7 87.2–90.2 85.5 83.0–87.7 89.4 87.0–91.4 93.2 90.6–95.1
Nebraska 87.5 84.0–90.3 85.4 80.0–89.6 89.2 84.3–92.7
Nevada 71.1 66.2–75.6 61.4 55.4–67.2 74.8 67.4–80.9 82.6 77.3–86.9
New Hampshire 81.8 78.5–84.8 77.6 72.4–82.1 83.5 79.4–87.0 86.6 81.6–90.4
New Jersey 70.5 65.8–74.8 49.8 42.7–56.8 82.8 76.8–87.5 85.5 81.4–88.8
New Mexico 80.8 75.7–85.0 78.7 74.7–82.1 81.9 73.8–88.0 84.8 79.5–88.9
New York 62.4 56.1–68.2 53.2 46.4–59.9 64.7 57.1–71.6 77.5 68.2–84.7
North Carolina 77.6 71.1–82.9 72.1 64.5–78.5 79.7 70.5–86.5 83.8 76.9–89.0
North Dakota 89.7 87.3–91.7 84.1 79.2–88.0 91.7 89.0–93.9 94.9 91.6–97.0
Ohio 81.3 75.6–85.9 78.0 70.1–84.2 80.6 74.6–85.6 88.6 82.1–92.9
Oklahoma 85.1 82.2–87.5 78.1 72.0–83.2 87.4 83.7–90.4 92.8 85.7–96.5
Rhode Island 69.9 63.5–75.7 57.5 48.9–65.6 78.0 70.9–83.7 82.6 77.0–87.1
South Carolina 82.6 78.5–86.0 78.4 73.1–82.9 82.4 74.2–88.4 89.8 83.1–94.1
South Dakota 90.2 87.5–92.3 85.6 79.8–90.0 94.6 91.8–96.6 90.3 82.6–94.8
Tennessee 81.1 76.9–84.7 77.3 70.7–82.7 83.2 77.5–87.8 84.2 77.1–89.4
Texas 78.0 74.3–81.2 69.2 62.2–75.4 80.4 77.4–83.1 88.4 85.7–90.6
Utah 88.1 83.8–91.4 84.7 79.0–89.1 89.2 83.9–92.9 93.0 86.3–96.6
Vermont 82.6 80.6–84.5 79.6 76.9–82.0 84.9 82.0–87.3 84.5 81.7–86.9
Virginia 76.9 73.9–79.6 73.1 69.6–76.3 79.8 75.7–83.4 81.1 75.0–86.0
West Virginia 80.4 77.3–83.2 76.6 72.1–80.6 82.0 76.9–86.2 84.0 77.0–89.2
Wisconsin 83.4 79.9–86.4 77.5 72.5–81.9 86.3 81.5–90.1 87.7 81.8–91.9
Wyoming 86.9 84.2–89.3 85.1 80.9–88.5 87.9 84.7–90.5 88.6 83.6–92.3
Large urban school district surveys
Baltimore, Maryland 54.5 49.5–59.3 46.9 39.2–54.8 60.6 55.1–65.9 59.0 48.7–68.7
Boston, Massachusetts 33.8 29.7–38.1 24.5 20.0–29.6 33.7 27.9–40.1 42.2 35.0–49.7
Broward County, Florida 73.1 69.1–76.8 65.9 59.5–71.7 76.6 71.0–81.3 80.2 72.7–86.0
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina 76.0 72.4–79.3 64.3 58.0–70.1 81.9 76.5–86.3 84.9 78.8–89.5
Chicago, Illinois 49.1 46.1–52.2 37.7 33.2–42.4 53.5 47.0–59.9 60.5 54.2–66.6
Detroit, Michigan 65.5 60.3–70.2 58.5 49.8–66.8 70.0 63.8–75.5 71.0 63.1–77.8
District of Columbia 42.6 41.1–44.1 40.4 38.3–42.4 41.7 39.3–44.0 51.3 47.6–55.1
Duval County, Florida 75.1 72.7–77.3 71.2 67.9–74.3 76.4 72.8–79.6 79.9 72.6–85.6
Houston, Texas 70.5 67.0–73.7 67.7 62.0–72.8 68.8 63.3–73.8 76.4 71.8–80.4
Los Angeles, California 48.8 43.8–53.9 41.2 32.4–50.6 51.1 43.0–59.2 58.3 51.9–64.4
Memphis, Tennessee 67.8 64.0–71.4 56.5 51.0–61.8 74.1 67.9–79.5 77.9 70.7–83.7
Miami-Dade County, Florida 65.8 61.9–69.6 58.4 53.2–63.5 68.0 61.6–73.8 73.6 67.9–78.7
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 54.5 51.3–57.8 50.8 45.9–55.7 57.9 51.4–64.1 55.4 47.8–62.8
New York City, New York 31.0 28.2–33.9 27.0 22.3–32.3 33.3 30.3–36.4 39.8 33.6–46.2
Orange County, Florida 67.5 63.4–71.3 62.1 55.6–68.2 68.8 63.5–73.6 75.4 68.3–81.4
Palm Beach County, Florida 73.5 70.6–76.2 69.9 65.5–74.0 72.8 68.0–77.1 79.4 73.0–84.7
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 47.7 43.1–52.3 45.1 39.7–50.7 46.8 40.3–53.5 53.0 42.1–63.6
San Bernardino, California 59.6 55.1–64.0 54.9 48.9–60.7 61.5 52.5–69.9
San Diego, California 57.7 52.9–62.3 50.9 45.0–56.8 60.2 53.0–67.1 68.5 60.9–75.3
San Francisco, California 30.2 27.0–33.7 24.1 19.5–29.4 32.0 27.5–36.8 39.2 32.5–46.4
Seattle, Washington 54.0 49.8–58.1 51.1 45.0–57.2 55.8 49.7–61.8 57.8 47.0–67.9

Abbreviation: CI = confidence interval.

*

Data were not available for California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Data were collected from public school students in 39 states and 21 large urban school districts and from public and private school students in three states.

Estimate suppressed because cell size was <100.