Surveys of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and reported behaviours of drivers - on the topic of drink driving and random breath testing

A series of three surveys on the topic of drink driving was conducted for the traffic authority. Specific information was sought in the areas of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of drivers with respect to drink driving and random breath testing. The first survey was conducted shortly before the introduction of random breath testing and provides a baseline against which changes in response patterns in the subsequent surveys can be gauged. The second survey was conducted about 6 months after the introduction of random breath testing and the third about 20 months after the introduction of random breath testing. This report presents an analysis of results for a subset of the questionnaire items. Special attention has been given to changes across the surveys. The results show that there has been a variety of changes in the patterns of responses across the surveys (a).