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National Automotive Sampling System - Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS) - NASS-CDS (multiyear)

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

The National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) Crashworthiness Data System (CDS) is a nationwide crash data collection program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It is operated by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NASS CDS provides an automated, comprehensive national traffic crash database, and collects detailed information on a sample of all police-reported light ]motor vehicle traffic crashes. Data collection is accomplished at 24 geographic sites, called Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). These data are weighted to represent all police reported motor vehicle crashes occurring in the USA during the year involving passenger cars, light trucks and vans that were towed due to damage.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

Downloads & Resources

References

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/CATS/listpublications.aspx%3FId=l&ShowBy=DocType

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Maintainer
Identifier 242.0
Data First Published 1989-08-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2021-10-29
Category Transportation
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
Agencydataseriesurl https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/NASS/
Agencyprogramurl https://www.nhtsa.gov/national-automotive-sampling-system-nass/crashworthiness-data-system
Analysisunit Police reported motor vehicle crash
Bureau Code 021:18
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Categorydesignation Research
Collectioninstrument NASSMAIN
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id eb724f0f-02f4-41da-8081-f833b29d0c87
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/xrgf-q6dn
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Old Spatial Cities, counties, groups of counties. Northeast, Southeast, Northern Midwest, Southern Midwest, Northwest, Southwest
Phone 202-366-4998
Program Code 021:031
Related Documents http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/CATS/listpublications.aspx%3FId=l&ShowBy=DocType
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash d4b2b801f87fd0d089211b7ba0602a0d71b1b23996f3201eea51f66bd78266dd
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal R/1988-01-01/P1Y

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