The Scottish Government

Table 18

Pupils in full-time education at school - usual main method of travel to school ¹: 1999 / 2000

Usual main method of travel to school

Sample Size (=100%)

Walking

Car or Van

Bicycle

School bus

Service bus

Rail ²

Other ³

row percentages

n =

All in full-time education at school

55

19

1

16

7

1

2

6,111

by year:

1999

55

18

1

16

8

1

2

2,636

2000

54

20

1

16

7

1

2

3,475

by sex:

boys

54

19

1

17

7

1

2

3,032

girls

55

20

0

15

7

1

2

3,079

by age:

4-5

57

31

0

9

2

0

1

550

6-7

62

25

0

9

2

0

1

1,042

8-9

58

25

0

12

3

0

1

987

10-11

63

18

1

11

6

0

2

977

Total 4-11

60

24

0

10

3

0

1

3,556

12-13

45

13

1

24

13

1

3

967

14-15

45

9

1

26

14

2

3

1,024

16-18

48

14

1

21

13

2

1

564

Total 12-18

46

12

1

25

14

1

2

2,555

by social class of Highest Income Householder:

Professional occupations

45

34

0

14

5

1

1

406

Managerial and technical occs.

47

26

0

18

6

1

2

1,672

Skilled non-manual occupations

55

22

0

14

6

1

2

710

Skilled manual occupations

56

17

1

17

8

0

2

1,484

Partly skilled occupations

58

13

0

19

9

0

1

703

Unskilled occupations

61

12

1

13

9

0

4

238

by annual net household income:

up to 5,000

56

16

0

17

7

0

3

118

over 5,000, up to 10,000

65

9

1

11

13

0

2

871

over 10,000, up to 15,000

62

13

1

13

9

0

2

1,172

over 15,000, up to 20,000

52

18

1

18

8

1

2

1,199

over 20,000, up to 25,000

56

22

0

16

4

0

1

1,019

over 25,000, up to 30,000

47

29

1

16

5

1

2

709

over 30,000, up to 40,000

46

26

0

21

5

1

1

640

over 40,000

40

32

1

19

5

1

2

329

by urban / rural classification:

Large urban areas

60

20

0

5

12

1

2

1,819

Other urban areas

59

19

1

14

6

0

2

1,997

Small "accessible" towns

59

18

1

16

3

1

1

607

Small "remote" towns

59

22

2

13

3

0

1

314

"Accessible" rural areas

37

21

0

35

4

0

2

821

"Remote" rural areas

25

14

1

56

2

0

1

548

by distance between home and school:

Less than 1 km

83

14

1

1

1

0

0

3,045

1 to less than 2 km

41

27

1

16

13

0

1

1,135

2 to less than 3 km

8

26

0

38

23

1

4

415

3 to less than 5 km

3

21

0

50

20

1

4

412

5 to less than 10 km

5

22

0

55

10

3

5

403

Over 10 km

8

21

0

55

10

2

5

316

Usual main method of travel to school

All methods

Walking

Car / van

Bicycle

School bus

Service bus

Rail ²

Other ³

percentages of all school pupils

usual main method of travel homefromschool:

Walking

53.6

3.0

0.0

0.3

0.5

0.0

0.1

57.5

Car or van

0.6

14.8

0.0

0.2

0.2

0.0

0.0

15.8

Bicycle

0.0

0.0

0.6

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.6

School bus

0.1

0.7

0.0

15.3

0.1

0.0

0.0

16.3

Service bus

0.2

0.6

0.0

0.1

6.5

0.0

0.1

7.5

Rail ²

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.6

0.0

0.6

Other ³

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.5

1.6

All methods of travel home from school

54.5

19.3

0.6

15.9

7.3

0.6

1.7

100.0