Guidance
Road safety statistics: methodology documents
Methodology notes related to various aspects of published road safety statistics.
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Details
Methodology notes providing further detail of the calculations involved in producing different elements of the published statistics are also available. These include:
- Provisional in-year casualty estimates
- Drink-drive statistics
- Valuation of road accidents and casualties
- Estimating total casualties from survey information
Older methodology papers are also available. The following papers relate to aspects of the statistics which are no longer routinely updated, but are retained for reference purposes
- Testing for statistical significance in road casualty numbers
- Adjusting road casualty estimates to account for weather patterns
- Linking police and hospital data on road accidents
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Published 28 November 2024