To focus Agency resources and reduce crashes, FMCSA relies on our State partners to provide accurate, comprehensive data. Each month, FMCSA rates States on their reporting of safety data. This page allows States to view their ratings and measures and learn how to improve data quality performance.
FMCSA recently re-evaluated the SSDQ measures and identified changes to ensure the data used to inform safety are of the highest quality possible. Log in with your FMCSA Portal user ID and password to preview these changes.
What’s Changing
Rating thresholds and timeliness standards.
How to Preview Changes
Click the “State Rating: Preview” button below. To compare to your current rating, open the preview in a new browser window.
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Download an overview of the changes.
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The Crash Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Accuracy measure evaluates 12 months of data to determine your State’s rating. A record is evaluated if the date of the initial upload to FMCSA falls within that 12-month range. The range begins 15 months before the evaluation month, but excludes the most recent three months of data.
This measure evaluates crash records representing interstate and intrastate carriers, and includes large trucks and buses. It analyzes the VIN reported on the crash record. A VIN is invalid if it is less than 17 characters, contains invalid character(s), or does not pass a checksum analysis; for this measure, a VIN that contains the same 17 numbers, such as all 9’s, is considered invalid.
The rating percentage is determined by dividing the number of records with valid VINs by the number of total records evaluated. If the percentage of accurate records is