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4 43 1.3%5 15 .4%Restrain Status 3249 100.0%Yes 1481 45.6%No 1768 54.4%4.0 ConclusionsA number of conclusions can be drawn from the results of this national child seatsurvey. These are listed as follows:a) The rates of correct use of child safety seats in Canada has not achieved the RoadSafety 2010 target of 95% rate of correct use.b) Participants who agree to complete a detailed parking lot inspection of child seatuse are not representative of parents in Canada due to the higher rates of correctuse than the observed roadside rates of correct use.c) Despite the biased sample of parking lot participants who have high rates of childsafety seat use, there continues to be substantial patterns of misuse in thispopulation based on inspections in the parking lot sample.d) The age group with the lowest rates of correct use are the school aged children(ages 4 to 8) who have fewer than 20% rate of booster seat use.e) The rate of non-use remains unchanged from the previous 1997 survey.f) There is substantial differences in patterns of child seat use in provinces andregions in Canada.g) Rates of seat belt use among drivers in this study exceed the Road Safety Vision2010 target of 95% use of seat belts.36