Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) schemes aim to reduce crash rates among young drivers by helping them to gradually build experience within a supportive environment. The introduction of a proposed GDL scheme in one country of the UK (Northern Ireland) provides an opportunity to determine the impact that these schemes have upon wellbeing outcomes by comparing crash rates and other outcomes before and after the intervention in the exposed population (Northern Ireland) and non-exposed population (other countries of the UK).

This collection contains baseline qualitative data captured prior to the introduction of the proposed GDL scheme in Northern Ireland.  It contains transcripts of 21 focus (natural) group interviews conducted with young adults aged 16-22 or their parents from Northern Ireland, England and Wales. Topics covered include the role of driving, giving and taking lifts, the local transport system and alternatives to driving

Garnett, Emma

Green, Judith

Mullan, Patricia

Steinbach, Rebecca

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Evaluation of Graduated Driving Licence in the UK - Baseline Qualitative Study

Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) schemes aim to reduce crash rates among young drivers by helping them to gradually build experience within a supportive environment. The introduction of a proposed GDL scheme in one country of the UK (Northern Ireland) provides an opportunity to determine the impact that these schemes have upon wellbeing outcomes by comparing crash rates and other outcomes before and after the intervention in the exposed population (Northern Ireland) and non-exposed population (other countries of the UK).\ud
This collection contains baseline qualitative data captured prior to the introduction of the proposed GDL scheme in Northern Ireland.  It contains transcripts of 21 focus (natural) group interviews conducted with young adults aged 16-22 or their parents from Northern Ireland, England and Wales. Topics covered include the role of driving, giving and taking lifts, the local transport system and alternatives to driving

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Evaluation of GDL in the UK - Baseline Qualitative Study 
Evaluation of Graduated Driving Licence in the UK 
- Baseline Qualitative Study  
 
Data Creators 
Judith Green, Rebecca Steinbach, Patricia Mullan, Emma Garnett 
Data Description 
Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) schemes aim to reduce crash rates among young drivers by helping them to 
gradually build experience within a supportive environment. The introduction of a proposed GDL scheme in one 
country of the UK (Northern Ireland) provides an opportunity to determine the impact that these schemes have 
upon wellbeing outcomes by comparing crash rates and other outcomes before and after the intervention in the 
exposed population (Northern Ireland) and non-exposed population (other countries of the UK).  
This collection contains baseline qualitative data captured prior to the introduction of the proposed GDL scheme in 
Northern Ireland.  It contains transcripts of 21 focus (natural) group interviews conducted with young adults aged 
16-22 or their parents from Northern Ireland, England and Wales. Topics covered include the role of driving, giving 
and taking lifts, the local transport system and alternatives to driving. 
Data Collection Methods 
The study applied a purposive sampling method. First, recruitment areas in Northern Ireland were selected by 
identifying rural and urban settings with varying area deprivation.  Areas (Middle Super Output Areas) in England and 
Wales were subsequently selected with similar rates of road traffic injury. This was achieved by identifying injury 
rates for each areas and selecting those which include non-metropolitan areas of England Wales with varying 
deprivation levels and transport infrastructures. Recruitment was through gatekeepers including community groups 
(e.g. youth clubs) and snowballing from existing contacts. Group interviews used ‘natural groups’ where possible.  
Data Analysis and Preparation  
Group interviews were digitally recorded by the research team and sent to a professional service for transcription. 
Transcripts were checked and cleaned by the research team. 
Geographic regions 
Northern Ireland, England, Wales 
Key dates 
Data were collected between May and November 2015, and cleaned over December 2015 
Quality Controls 
Group interviews were recorded digitally and transcribed professionally, checked by project team and anonymised 
by a Research Assistant.   
Species: 
The target of analysis is group talk. 
Privacy: 
All personal and place names have been deleted from transcripts (apart from capital cities and generic names); other 
details which may be identifying have also been removed (e.g unusual activities).  The final part of postcodes on the 
Excel spreadsheet has been removed. 
All participants gave their permission for the transcripts to be archived in an anonymised form for use in future 
research.   
Evaluation of GDL in the UK - Baseline Qualitative Study 
Ethics 
The study was approved by the LSHTM Ethics Committee, reference 9742. 
Keywords 
Transport; driving; young adults; road injury 
Language of written material 
English 
Additional Information 
Rights and Access  
Interview transcripts are intended for use in a comparative study of GDL implementation in NI, to be performed 
when sufficient road safety data are available (approximately 2-3 years after implementation – 2017/2018 at the 
earliest). This data will be made available to the project team funded to perform this evaluation (it is not known who 
will perform this work at the time of writing). 
Interview transcripts produced during this study are embargoed until 31/03/2017 to enable write-up of findings for 
the GDL Baseline Study.  Subsequent access may be granted for secondary analysis for other purposes.  All other files 
are public access. 
Project Information 
Project 
Pre-intervention qualitative component of proposed evaluation of public health impacts of Graduated Driver 
Licensing in Northern Ireland 
Funder/Sponsor 
NIHR Public Health Research 
Grant Number 
PHR Project: 14/232/01 
Associated Roles 
Role Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution 
Data Creator/  
Principle 
Investigator /  
Contact Person 
Judith Green PHP/HSRP London School of Hygiene & 
Tropical Medicine 
Data Creator/ 
Study Manager 
Rebecca  Steinbach PHP/SEHR London School of Hygiene & 
Tropical Medicine 
Data Creator Patricia Mullan Freelance researcher N/A 
Data Creator Emma Garnett PHP/HSRP London School of Hygiene & 
Tropical Medicine 
Co-investigator Nicola Christie Centre for Transport 
Studies, Dept of Civil, 
Environmental & 
Geomatic Engineering 
UCL 
Co-investigator Lindsay  Prior Centre of Excellence for 
Public Health 
Queen’s University Belfast 
 
  
Evaluation of GDL in the UK - Baseline Qualitative Study 
File Description 
Data Collection files 
Title Filename File type Description 
MS Word 
Transcripts 
Transcripts.zip Zip 
compressed 
archive 
Compressed archive contains: 
 
 A summary of participant 
demographic information 
 
 21 anonymised interview 
transcripts provided in Word & 
RTF: 
 
 TRANSCRIPT-PSENGA1-2 
 TRANSCRIPT-PSNIA1-4 
 TRANSCRIPT-PSNIB5-9 
 TRANSCRIPT-PSWALA1-4 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPENGA1-3 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPENGB4-5 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPENGC6-10 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPENGD11-14 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIA1-5 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIB6-9 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIC10-12 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNICD13-16 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIE17-20 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIF21-28 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIG29-36 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNIH37-39 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPNII40-43 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPWALA1-4 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPWALB5-6 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPWALC7-8 
 TRANSCRIPT-YPWALD9-13 
 
See Additional Information (p2) for 
embargo details 
Demographic info 
form 
Demographic-Questionnaire.pdf Adobe PDF/A Form used to collect demographic 
information.  
Study Protocol GDL-BaselineStudy-Protocol.pdf Adobe PDF/A Full protocol for study 
Information sheet  GDL-InformationSheet.pdf Adobe PDF/A Information sheet for participants 
Topic guide – young 
adults 
TopicGuide-YoungAdults.pdf Adobe PDF/A Topic guide used in group interviews 
with young adults 
Topic guide - 
parents 
TopicGuide-Parents.pdf Adobe PDF/A Topic guide used in group interviews 
with parents 
Consent form GDL-ConsentForm.pdf Adobe PDF/A Consent form used in study 
 
Demographic Information Summary 
Code Description 
Group ID Participant type (YP or PS), Country (NI, ENG, WAL), unique letter identifier of group 
Participant ID Group ID + Participant number in group 
YP Young adults aged 16-21 
PS Parents of young adults aged 16-21 
Evaluation of GDL in the UK - Baseline Qualitative Study 
NI Northern Ireland 
ENG England 
WAL Wales 
Area county/town 
Postcode Removed 
IMD tercile: Derived from full postcode  
Interviewer: Lead group facilitator Rebecca Steinbach (RS), Patricia Mullan (PM), Emma Garnett (EG) or Judith 
Green (JG) 
 
Interview Transcripts 
 All place and personal names (apart from large cities) and other identifying information removed. 
 Interviewer and participant turns are indicated by I, M, F respectively. 
 Location (eg country/county) and IMD of the area (not the participants’ postcode) is indicated in the transcript. 
 


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