| Table 29. High school students who rarely or never wore seat belts or who rarely or never wore bicycle helmets, by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade, in percent | |||||||||||||||
| Rarely or Never Wore | Rarely or Never Wore | ||||||||||||||
| Seatbelts | Bicycle Helmets | ||||||||||||||
| Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | ||||||||||
| Galveston* | |||||||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||||
| White | 7.3 | 11.3 | 9.4 | 92.1 | 93.5 | 92.9 | |||||||||
| Black | 4.9 | 8.5 | 6.5 | 96.2 | 96.8 | 96.5 | |||||||||
| Hispanic | 4.3 | 7.6 | 5.8 | 93.9 | 96.7 | 95.4 | |||||||||
| All other | 21.3 | 18.9 | 19.8 | 87.5 | 84.3 | 85.1 | |||||||||
| Grade | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | 8.9 | 11.8 | 10.3 | 95.1 | 95.6 | 95.3 | |||||||||
| 10 | 6.8 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 92.6 | 94.7 | 93.8 | |||||||||
| 11 | 4.5 | 9.7 | 6.8 | 92.3 | 95.5 | 94.0 | |||||||||
| 12 | 3.5 | 14.9 | 9.2 | 94.7 | 91.7 | 92.9 | |||||||||
| 2004 Total | 6.3 | 10.2 | 8.1 | 93.8 | 94.6 | 94.2 | |||||||||
| 2002 Total | 9.3 | 16.0 | 12.5 | 94.6 | 93.5 | 94.0 | |||||||||
| 2000 Total | 13.4 | 18.3 | 15.7 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||
| Texas* | 4.8 | 10.9 | 7.9 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 92.0 | |||||||||
| United States* | 14.6 | 21.5 | 18.2 | 84.2 | 87.2 | 85.9 | |||||||||
| *Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2000, 2002, 2004, Texas, and United States 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| Percents may not add up to 100% due to missing values. | |||||||||||||||
| White = non-Hispanic white, Hispanic = any race, Black = non-Hispanic black, All other = non-Hispanic | |||||||||||||||
| N/A = Not Available | |||||||||||||||