Primary and Secondary Data Sources for the Study of Road Crashes in Australia

By

Margaret J. Giles
School of Finance and Business Economics
Faculty of Business and Public Management
Edith Cowan University

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School of Finance and Business Economics
Edith Cowan University
Working Paper 00.2
February 2000
ISSN: 1323-9244
ISBN: 0-7298-0475-5

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to document the variety and relative usefulness of road crash databases in Australia. Analyses of some of these databases have been published in a variety of Australian and overseas publications, and their existence is known generally within the road crash research community in Australia. However, a comprehensive and comparative overview has not been previously documented in this way.

This paper examines these primary and secondary sources of road crash data and the use of these sources in both aggregate road crash costings and cost-benefit analyses of road crash prevention and injury reduction programmes in Australia.

Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank Paul Miller for his support and constructive comments, and session discussants at the presentation of an earlier version of this paper at the 1999 Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, University House, Canberra, November 28-30, 1999.

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