Table 3.
Surveyed restrai use and seating position of child passengers by age and gender
| Total |
Infants and toddlers (ages 0–3) |
Preschool children (ages 4–6) |
Primary school children (ages 7–12) |
Middle school children (ages 13–17) |
χ2 | P value | Boy |
Girl |
χ2 | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||||
| Restraint used | |||||||||||
| Total | 571 (100.0) | 128 (100.0) | 258 (100.0) | 165 (100.0) | 20 (100.0) | 29.44 | <0.001 | 297 (100.0) | 274 (100.0) | 0.42 | 0.51 |
| Yes | 430 (75.3) | 116 (90.6) | 196 (76.0) | 105 (63.6) | 13 (65.0) | 227 (76.4) | 203 (74.1) | ||||
| No | 141 (24.7) | 12 (9.4) | 62 (24.0) | 60 (36.4) | 7 (35.0) | 70 (23.6) | 71 (25.9) | ||||
| Type of restraint used | |||||||||||
| Total | 571 (100.0) | 128 (100.0) | 258 (100.0) | 165 (100.0) | 20 (100.0) | 189.69 | <0.001 | 297 (100.0) | 274 (100.0) | 2.94 | 0.40 |
| Child safety seat | 243 (42.6) | 106 (82.8) | 119 (46.1) | 18 (10.9) | 0 | 122 (41.1) | 121 (44.2) | ||||
| Booster | 61 (10.7) | 4 (3.1) | 34 (13.2) | 23 (13.9) | 0 | 31 (10.4) | 30 (10.9) | ||||
| Seat belt | 126 (22.1) | 6 (4.7) | 43 (16.7) | 64 (38.8) | 13 (65.0) | 74 (24.9) | 52 (19.0) | ||||
| No restraint | 141 (24.7) | 12 (9.4) | 62 (24.0) | 60 (36.4) | 7 (35.0) | 70 (23.6) | 71 (25.9) | ||||
| Seating position | |||||||||||
| Total | 571 (100.0) | 128 (100.0) | 258 (100.0) | 165 (100.0) | 20 (100.0) | 31.96 | <0.001 | 297 (100.0) | 274 (100.0) | 0.88 | 0.64 |
| Front seated | 60 (10.5) | 5 (3.91) | 27 (10.47) | 19 (11.52) | 9 (45.0) | 33 (11.1) | 27 (9.8) | ||||
| Rear seated | 500 (87.6) | 121 (94.53) | 225 (87.21) | 143 (86.67) | 11 (55.0) | 257 (86.5) | 243 (88.7) | ||||
| Adult’s lap | 11 (1.9) | 2 (1.56) | 6 (2.23) | 3 (1.82) | 0 | 7 (2.4) | 4 (1.5) | ||||
| Properly used safety restraint* | |||||||||||
| Total | 499 (100.0) | 121 (100.0) | 224 (100.0) | 143 (100.0) | 11 (100.0) | 48.33 | <0.001 | 256 (100.0) | 243 (100.0) | 2.69 | 0.26 |
| Properly | 191 (38.3) | 60 (49.6) | 84 (37.5) | 43 (30.1) | 4 (36.4) | 95 (37.1) | 96 (39.5) | ||||
| Improperly | 198 (39.7) | 52 (43.0) | 98 (43.7) | 48 (33.6) | 0 | 110 (43.0) | 88 (36.2) | ||||
| Not at all | 110 (22.0) | 9 (7.4) | 42 (18.8) | 52 (36.3) | 7 (63.6) | 51 (19.9) | 59 (24.3) | ||||
*
Less than the total due to 72 missing criteria for properly used safety restraint outcome.