The National Statistics Office (ONE) has begun releasing the results of a Multi – purpose National Survey of Households (Enhogar 2017). Enhogar 2017 includes for the first time a module on road safety in which households were polled about traffic accidents. The pollsters asked how many members were involved, their demographic characteristics, the time and place of the accident, what happened to the victims and the principle cause of the accident. They also asked about where the accident occurred, what type of vehicle was involved, what was the principal method of transportation, which in the rural areas was a motorcycle (71.9%) and in the city the percentage was at 57.9%.
The survey said that there is a marked difference in the proportion of persons who had accidents on a motorcycle or a motoconcho in the city or in the country: 61.8% versus 79.7%. The information also shows that a greater number of men (66.6%) said that they were on a motorcycle or a motoconcho at the time of the accident. This is in contrast to the women who said their accident involved a motorcycle or a motoconcho at 48.1%.
The study also said that the lowest social economical groups with those that presented the highest proportion of homes with at least one of their members involved in a traffic accident: 8% in the very poor group and 9.4% in the poor group. Of course, men far outnumbered women involved in accidents: 71.7% versus 28.3%. The survey also highlighted something that most observers already knew, that nearly half (43.7%) of the accident victims belonged to the age group 15-29 at the time of the accident.
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Diario Libre
17 December 2018
