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Household Transport in 1999 and 2000: Some Scottish Household Survey results
12 Adults (16+) with limited mobility, and with Orange or Blue Badges(Table 19; Chart L)
12.1 The interviewer asks adults with a long-standing limiting illness, health problem, or disability if they would normally find it difficult to manage certain activities on their own, such as walking for at least 10 minutes or using a bus. (Other adults are not asked these questions, and are therefore counted as not having such difficulties in this analysis.)
12.2 Table 19 shows the results for five transport-related activities. 10% of adults said that they had a long-standing limiting illness, health problem, or disability and that they had difficulty walking for at least 10 minutes. The percentages who said that they would normally have difficulty using the following on their own were: bus - 7%; train - 5%; car - 2%; and taxi - 2%. Overall, 11% of adults said that they had a long-standing limiting illness, health problem, or disability and that they had difficulty with one or more of the five transport-related activities: 5% would normally find it difficult to manage one of the five activities on their own; 4% would have difficulty with two or three; and 2% with four or five of these activities. There was very little difference between the overall figures for 1999 and 2000.
12.3 There were slight differences between the sexes, for example, 5% of men said that they found it difficult to manage on their own on a bus compared with 8% of women. Overall, 11% of men said that they had a long-standing limiting illness, health problem, or disability and that they had difficulty with one or more of the activities compared with 12% of women.
12.4 Not surprisingly, the reported ability to manage such activities varied markedly with age: only 1-2% of people aged between 16 and 29 said that they found it difficult to walk for at least 10 minutes, compared with 35% of those aged 80 and over. Similarly, less than 5% of those aged 49 and under had difficulty in using a bus compared with 31% of those aged 80+. Chart L illustrates how the percentages having difficulty increase with age. Only 2% of people aged between 16 and 19, and 2% of 20-29 year olds, had difficulty managing one or more of the activities, compared with 19% of those aged 60-69, 26% of 70-79 year olds, and 41% of people aged 80 or over. There was little difference by area type. There was some variation by whether a car was available for private use in the household. 21% of people with no cars available found difficulty managing one or more activities compared to 8% with at least one car available to their household.
12.5 The interviewer also asks whether the adult has an Orange or Blue Badge, awarded under the scheme of parking concessions for disabled and blind people (NB: over the period from 1st April 2000 to 31 March 2003, Orange Badges are being replaced by EU Blue Badges). The lower part of Table 19 shows that, overall, 4% of adults had an Orange or Blue Badge. As would be expected, the percentage of the population who held an Orange or Blue Badge increased with age (eg 1% of 30-39 year olds, 8% of 50-59 year olds and 10% of 70-79 year olds held an Orange or Blue Badge) and was highest (13%) for the oldest age-group (those aged 80 or over).
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