Road traffic deaths: a toolkit for strengthening data systems

Overview

This toolkit is for all practitioners and stakeholders working to strengthen systems for gathering road traffic death data. These include decision- and policy-makers, in particular from ministries of health, transport, and interior; national lead agencies where they exist (e.g. for road safety, mobility etc); stakeholders such as the police, transport and traffic authorities; forensic medicine; the insurance industry; cemeteries; the civil registration system; and nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions concerned with road safety.

This package outlines two phases in working to strengthen data collection systems for registering road traffic deaths: engagement with stakeholders to map current situations; and improving data collection through the use of tools and strategies to eliminate road data gaps and bottlenecks. This package helps users: • apply a “systems approach” to understanding and analyzing information on road traffic deaths by working across sectors with all stakeholders to map out the current state of play in relation to registration systems and to address the main causes of under-performance by these systems; • estimate the number of deaths after integrating at least three main various data sources, using the capture–recapture method.