NATIONAL TELEPHONE SURVEYS:
May and June 2003
Conducted by Schulman, Ronca and Bucuvalas, Inc.
NATIONAL TELEPHONE SURVEY - BANNERS
MAY/JUNE 2003 SAFETY BELT TRACKING STUDY
Q.1 How often do you drive a motor vehicle? Almost every day, a few
days a week, a few days a month, a few days a year, or do you never
drive?
Q.2 Is the vehicle you drive most often a car, van, motorcycle, sport utility vehicle, pickup truck, or other type of truck?
Q.3 Do the safety belts in the front safety of the (car/truck/van) go across your shoulder only, across your lap only, or across both your shoulder and lap?
Q.4 When driving this (car/truck/van), how often do you wear your shoulder belt?
Q.5 When driving this (car/truck/van), how often do you wear your lap belt?
Q.6 When was the last time you did NOT wear your safety belt when driving?
Q.7 In the past 30 days, has your use of safety belts when driving (vehicle
driven most often) increased, decreased, or stayed the same?
Q.8 What caused your use of safety belts to increase?
Q.9 Does (respondent’s state) have a law requiring safety belt use by adults?
Q.10 Assume that you do not use your safety belt AT ALL while driving over the next six months. How likely do you think you will be to receive a ticket for not wearing a safety belt?
Q.11 According to your state law, can police stop a vehicle if they observe a safety belt violation or do they have to observe some other offense first in order to stop the vehicle?
Q.12 In your opinion, should police be allowed to stop a vehicle if they observe a safety belt violation when no other traffic laws are being broken?
Q.13 Please tell me whether you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree or strongly disagree with the following statements?
a) Safety belts are just as likely to harm you as help you.
b) If I was in an accident, I would want to have my safety belt on.
c) Police in my community generally will not bother to write tickets for safety belt violations.
d) It is important for police to enforce the safety belt laws.
e) Putting on a safety belt makes me worry more about being in an accident.
f) Police in my community are writing more safety belt tickets now than they were a few months ago.
Q.14 Yes or No--in the past 30 days, have you seen or heard of any special effort by police to ticket drivers in your community for safety belt violations?
Q.15 Where did you see or hear about that special effort?
Q.16 Was the (tv/radio) message a commercial (or advertisement), was it part of a news program, or was it something else?
If state EQ Indiana or Michigan Skip to alternative Q.17, All other states except Ohio skip to Q.24.
Q.17 Yes or no- in the past 30 days, have you seen or heard anything about the police setting up safety belt checkpoints where they will stop motor vehicles to check whether drivers and passengers are wearing safety belts?
Q.18 Let me just confirm, is this the type of checkpoint that you have seen or heard about in the past 30 days?
Q.19 Where did you see or hear about the police checkpoints for safety belts?
Q.20 Was the (tv/radio) message a commercial (or advertisement), was it part of a news program, or was it something else?
Q.21 In the past 30 days, did you personally see any checkpoints where police were stopping motor vehicles to see if drivers and passengers were wearing safety belts?
Q.22 Let me just confirm, is this the type of checkpoint that you personally saw in the past 30 days?
Q.23 Were you personally stopped by police at a safety belt checkpoint in the past 30 days?
Q.24 In the past 30 days, have you seen or heard of any special effort by police to ticket drivers in your community if children in their vehicles are not wearing safety belts or are not in car safety seats?
Q.25 Now, I would like to ask you a few questions about educational or other types of activities? In the past 30 days, have you seen or heard any messages that encourage people to wear their safety belts. This could be public service announcements on TV, messages on the radio, signs on the road, news stories, or something else.
Q.26 Where did you see or hear these messages?
Q.27 Was the (tv/radio) message a commercial (or advertisement), was it part of a news program, or was it something else?
Q.28 Would you say that the number of these messages you have seen or heard in the past 30 days is more than usual, fewer than usual, or about the same as usual?
Q.29 Are there any advertisements or activities that you have seen or heard in the past 30 days that encouraged adults to make sure that children use car safety seats or safety belts?
Q.31 Thinking about everything you have heard, how important do you think it is for [respondent’s state] to enforce safety belt laws for ADULTS more strictly . . . . very important, fairly important, just somewhat important, or not that important?
Q.32 Do you recall hearing or seeing slogans in the past 30 days?
Q.33 Now, I need to ask you some basic information about you and your household. What is your age?
Q.34 Including yourself, how many persons age 16 or older are living in your household at least half of the time or consider it their primary residence?
Q.35 How many children age 15 or younger are living in your household at least half of the time or consider it their primary residence?
Q.36 Do you consider yourself to be Hispanic or Latino?
Q.37 Which racial categories describe you?
Q.38 What is the highest grade or year of school you completed?
Q.39 Do you have more than one telephone number in your household?
Q.40 Not including cells phones, and numbers used primarily for fax or computer lines, How many different telephone numbers do you have in your household?
Q.41 Sex of Respondent
NATIONAL TELEPHONE SURVEY – RESULTS
MAY/JUNE 2003 SAFETY BELT TRACKING STUDY
Q.1 How often do you drive a motor vehicle? Almost every day, a few
days a week, a few days a month, a few days a year, or do you never
drive?
Q.2 Is the vehicle you drive most often a car, van, motorcycle, sport utility vehicle, pickup truck, or other type of truck?
Q.3 Do the safety belts in the front safety of the (car/truck/van) go across your shoulder only, across your lap only, or across both your shoulder and lap?
Q.4 When driving this vehicle, how often do you wear your shoulder belt?
Base: Have shoulder belt in primary vehicle
Q.5 When driving this (car/truck/van), how often do you wear your lap belt? Base: Have lap belt in primary vehicle
Q.6 When was the last time you did NOT wear your safety belt when driving? Base: Have shoulder or lap belt in primary vehicle
Q.7 In the past 30 days, has your use of safety belts when driving (vehicle driven most often) increased, decreased, or stayed the same? Base: Have shoulder or lap belt in primary vehicle
Q.8 What caused your use of safety belts to increase? Base: Drivers whose use of safety belts has increased
Q.9 Does (respondent’s state) have a law requiring safety belt use by adults? Base: Total Adults\
Q.10 Assume that you do not use your safety belt AT ALL while driving over the next six months. How likely do you think you will be to receive a ticket for not wearing a safety belt? Base: Primary vehicle not a motorcycle/State has safety belt law
Q.11 According to your state law, can police stop a vehicle if they observe a safety belt violation or do they have to observe some other offense first in order to stop the vehicle? Base: State has safety belt law
Q.12 In your opinion, should police be allowed to stop a vehicle if they observe a safety belt violation when no other traffic laws are being broken? Base: Total adults
Q.13a Safety belts are just as likely to harm you as help you? Base: Total adults
Q.13b If I was in an accident, I would want to have my safety belt on. Base: Total adults
Q.13c Police in my community generally will not bother to write tickets
for safety belt violations? Base: Total adults
Q.13d It is important for police to enforce the safety belt laws? Base: Total adults
Q.13e Putting on a safety belt makes me worry about being in an accident? Base: Total adults
Q.13f Police in my community are writing more safety belt tickets now than they were a few months ago. Base: Total adults
d
Q.14 In the past 30 days, have you seen or heard of any special effort
by police to ticket drivers in your community for safety belt violations?
Base: Total adults
Q.15 Where did you see or hear about that special effort? Base: Have seen or heard about special efforts to ticket for safety belts
Q.16 Was the TV/radio message a commercial/advertisement, part of a news program, or something else? Base: Have seen or heard message in the past 30 days on radio or television
Q.17-Q23 not asked in May 2003 or June 2003.
Q.24 In the past 30 days, have you seen or heard of any special effort
by police to ticket drivers in your community if children in their vehicles
are not wearing safety belts or are not in car seats? Base: Total adults
Q.25 In the past 30 days, have you seen or heard any messages that encourage
people to wear their safety belts? Base: Total adults
Q.26 Where did you see or hear these messages? Base: Have seen/heard messages encouraging people to wear safety belts
Q.27 Was the TV/radio message a commercial/advertisement, part of a news program, or something else? Base: Have seen/heard messages encouraging people to wear safety belts on TV/radio
Q.28 Would you say that the number of messages you have seen or heard in the past 30 days is more than usual, fewer than usual or about the same as usual? Base: Have seen/heard messages encouraging people to wear safety belts
Q.29 Are there any advertisements or activities you have seen or heard in the past 30 days that encouraged adults to make sure their children use car seats or safety belts? Base: Total adults
Q.30 What did you see or hear? Base: Have seem/heard ads/activities in past 30 days encouraging adults to make children use car seats/safety belts
Q.31 Thinking about everything you have heard, how important do you think it is for [STATE] to enforce safety belt laws for adults more strictly? Base: Total adults
Q.32 Do you recall hearing or seeing the following slogans in the past 30 days? Base: Total adults
Q.32 Do you recall hearing or seeing the Click It or Ticket Slogan in the past 30 days? Base: Total adults
Q.33 What is your age? Base: Total adults
Q.34 Including yourself, how many persons aged 16 or older are living in your household at least half of the time or consider it their primary residence? Base: Total adults
Q.35 How many children aged 15 or younger are living in your household at least half of the time or consider it their primary residence? Base: Total adults
Q.36 Do you consider yourself to be Hispanic or Latino?
Q.37 Which of the following racial categories describes you? Base: Total
adults
Q.38 What is the highest grade or year of school you completed? Base: Total adults
Q.39 Do you have more than one telephone number in your household? Base: Total adults
Q.41 Sex of respondent? Base: Total adults
