| Table 3. High school students who rarely or never wore seatbelts, had ever ridden in a car with a driver who had been drinking alcohol**, and who drove a car while they had been drinking alcohol** by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade in percent | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rarely or Never Wore | Rode with a Driver Who Had | Drove When Drinking | |||||||||||||||||
| Seatbelts | Been Drinking Alcohol** | Alcohol** | |||||||||||||||||
| Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | |||||||||||
| Galveston* | |||||||||||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||||||||
| White | 8.1 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 41.2 | 32.6 | 36.8 | 21.8 | 15.4 | 18.6 | ||||||||||
| Black | 8.6 | 15.5 | 11.8 | 21.9 | 27.2 | 25.0 | 5.1 | 11.7 | 8.5 | ||||||||||
| Hispanic | 12.0 | 15.2 | 13.6 | 33.6 | 37.5 | 35.9 | 14.0 | 18.0 | 15.9 | ||||||||||
| All other | 5.8 | 17.6 | 12.4 | 31.4 | 41.3 | 37.2 | 12.9 | 22.7 | 19.2 | ||||||||||
| Grade | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | 13.0 | 13.4 | 13.6 | 28.3 | 28.6 | 29.6 | 10.8 | 7.5 | 9.5 | ||||||||||
| 10 | 7.4 | 15.6 | 11.1 | 27.2 | 35.3 | 31.0 | 9.8 | 18.1 | 13.9 | ||||||||||
| 11 | 10.3 | 13.9 | 11.8 | 37.4 | 31.6 | 34.3 | 17.9 | 19.1 | 18.2 | ||||||||||
| 12 | 6.7 | 13.2 | 9.2 | 35.8 | 44.7 | 40.2 | 16.6 | 23.7 | 19.3 | ||||||||||
| 2007 Total* | 9.5 | 14.3 | 11.8 | 31.4 | 33.7 | 33.0 | 13.1 | 15.9 | 14.5 | ||||||||||
| 2004 Total* | 6.3 | 10.2 | 8.1 | 37.8 | 39.3 | 38.5 | 13.5 | 24.0 | 18.4 | ||||||||||
| 2002 Total* | 9.3 | 16.0 | 12.5 | 40.1 | 39.6 | 39.9 | 15.0 | 24.4 | 19.4 | ||||||||||
| 2000 Total* | 13.4 | 18.3 | 15.7 | 37.8 | 40.8 | 39.2 | 15.2 | 25.8 | 20.3 | ||||||||||
| Texas* | 3.8 | 8.5 | 6.2 | 35.0 | 38.9 | 37.0 | 10.8 | 19.9 | 15.4 | ||||||||||
| United States* | 7.8 | 12.5 | 10.2 | 29.6 | 27.2 | 28.5 | 8.1 | 11.7 | 9.9 | ||||||||||
| *Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2007, Texas and United States 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||
| **One or more times during the 30 days preceding the survey. | |||||||||||||||||||
| White = non-Hispanic white, Hispanic = any race, Black = non-Hispanic black, All other = any other, non-Hispanic. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Percents may not add up to 100% due to missing values. | |||||||||||||||||||