Seat Belt Use Rates in Alberta and Canada.

Keeping track of trends in seat belt and child safety seat use provides useful information for planning and targeting education efforts. Transport Canada has been providing provincial seat belt wearing rates since early 2000s. In 1999, Alberta conducted the first Rural Seat Belt Survey, providing useful information that showed a distinct difference between urban and rural use patterns. In 2004, Transport Canada began reporting on rural seat belt wearing rates for all provinces.

Alberta Transportation – Seat Belt Use in Alberta
Seat Belt Use Rates (pdf) (April 2011)

Transport Canada – Seat Belt Use in Canada
2011 Results of Transport Canada’s Rural and Urban Surveys of Seat Belt Use in Canada 2009-2010 (pdf)
(January 2011)

2009 Results of Transport Canada’s September 2009 Survey of Seat Belt Use in Rural Areas of the Country (pdf)
(April 2010)

2007 Results of Transport Canada’s Rural and Urban Surveys of Seat Belt Use in Canada 2006-2007 (pdf)
(January 2008)

2006 Results of Transport Canada’s September 2006 Survey of Seat Belt Use in Rural Areas of the Country (pdf)
(April 2007)

2005 Transport Canada’s Surveys of Seat Belt Use in Canada, 2004-2005
(February 2006)

2004 Results of Transport Canada’s September 2004 Survey of Seat Belt Use in Rural Areas of the Country
(May 2005)

2002-2003 Results of Transport Canada’s surveys of seat belt use in Canada 2002-2003
(September 2004)