ACTGHS active travel, children
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Commentary
36.0% of respondents to the 2021 ACT General Health Survey aged 5-17 years reported that they usually cycle or walk to school. In 2021, males (39.7%) were slightly more likely to report usually cycling or walking to school than females (31.0%), however this difference was not statistically significant.
Includes part way walking and cycling.
For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.
Data for active travel are not collected every third year (i.e. 2019 and 2022).
Responses for children aged 5-15 years were provided by the parent/carer who knows the most about the child's health. Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.
Chart
Proportion of children aged 5 to 17 years who ride or walk to school, ACT General Health Survey, 2011-2021
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. How do you usually get to work/school?
train
bus
ferry
tram (including light rail)
taxi
car - as a driver
car - as a passenger
truck
motorbike or motor scooter
bicycle
walk only
work at home/home schooled
walk part of the way
other
ride part of the way
use scooter or skateboard
don't work or study
don't know
refused
Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.
A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.