Statistics
Using the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (http://www.cpsc.gov/LIBRARY/data.html) figures the number of annual reported child toy-related deaths and injuries, compared with CPSC expenditure and total toy sales in the US by year are tabulated below.
Year | Injuries (US $000) | Deaths (age <15) | CPSC toy safety funding (US$ Millions) |
Toy sales (US $ Billions) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1994 | 154 | |||
1995 | 139 | |||
1996 | 130 | |||
1997 | 141 | |||
1998 | 153 | 14 | ||
1999 | 152 | 16 | 13.6 | |
2000 | 191 | 17 | 12.0 | |
2001 | 255 | 25 | 12.4 | |
2002 | 212 | 13 | 12.2 | 21.3 |
2003 | 206 | 11 | 12.8 | 20.7 |
2004 | 210 | 16 | 11.5 | 22.4 |
2005 | 202 (estimate) | 20 | 11.0 | 22.2 |
2006 | no data | 22 | no data† | 22.3 |
2007 | no data | 22 | no data | |
2008 | no data | 19 | no data | |
2009 | no data | 12 | no data |
†Amount no longer given but combined with other categories—this is sometimes done to give an agency added flexibility; however, at times this is done to falsely show an increase in funding when there is no way to assess how much will be spent for a specific task.
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