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Name:

Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969–84

Description:

UKDriverDeaths is a time series giving the monthly totals of car drivers in Great Britain killed or seriously injured Jan 1969 to Dec 1984. Compulsory wearing of seat belts was introduced on 31 Jan 1983.

Seatbelts is more information on the same problem.

Variables:

Seatbelts is a multiple time series, with columns

DriversKilled: car drivers killed.
drivers: same as UKDriverDeaths.
front: front-seat passengers killed or seriously injured.
rear: rear-seat passengers killed or seriously injured.
kms: distance driven.
PetrolPrice: petrol price.
VanKilled: number of van (‘light goods vehicle’) drivers.
law: 0/1: was the law in effect that month?

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Rows:

192

Columns:

Files:

Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969–84_434_19.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Harvey, A.C. (1989). Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter. Cambridge University Press, pp. 519–523.

Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001). Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods. Oxford University Press. http://www.ssfpack.com/dkbook/

References

Harvey, A. C. and Durbin, J. (1986). The effects of seat belt legislation on British road casualties: A case study in structural time series modelling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A, 149, 187–227. doi: 10.2307/2981553.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Road_Casualties_in_Great_Britain_1969___84_434_19.csv")