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Statistical Bulletin Transport Series - Trn/2005/1: Bus and Coach Statistics: 2003-04
Table 27 Adults (16+) - percentage of their journeys which were made by bus, and percentage who reported making 1+ journeys by bus on the day before the interview: 2003
| % of all journeys which were made by bus | sample size (journeys) | % adults made bus journeys prev. day |
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Sun | All days |
cell percentages | |
All adults in 2003 | 10% | 11% | 11% | 9% | 12% | 10% | 5% | 10% | 26,790 | 10% |
by sex |
Male | 8% | 8% | 10% | 9% | 9% | 8% | 5% | 8% | 11,903 | 9% |
Female | 12% | 13% | 11% | 10% | 13% | 11% | 5% | 11% | 14,887 | 12% |
by age |
16 - 19 | 15% | 22% | 24% | 21% | 22% | 30% | 14% | 21% | 799 | 23% |
20 - 29 | 11% | 16% | 13% | 9% | 15% | 13% | 6% | 12% | 3,320 | 14% |
30 - 39 | 8% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 5,886 | 7% |
40 - 49 | 7% | 7% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 2% | 6% | 5,377 | 7% |
50 - 59 | 8% | 9% | 6% | 7% | 10% | 6% | 3% | 7% | 4,557 | 8% |
60 - 69 | 11% | 12% | 16% | 11% | 20% | 12% | 5% | 12% | 3,725 | 11% |
70 - 79 | 20% | 21% | 18% | 21% | 25% | 23% | 4% | 19% | 2,311 | 12% |
80 and over | 20% | 16% | 25% | 20% | 26% | 20% | 6% | 20% | 815 | 9% |
by current situation 1 |
Self-employed | 3% | 0% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 1,489 | 2% |
Full-time employment | 7% | 9% | 9% | 8% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 7% | 11,060 | 10% |
Part-time employment | 9% | 9% | 10% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 2% | 7% | 3,287 | 9% |
Looking after home / family | 10% | 13% | 7% | 7% | 11% | 6% | 3% | 8% | 1,959 | 8% |
Permanently retired from work | 15% | 15% | 17% | 16% | 22% | 17% | 5% | 16% | 5,781 | 11% |
Unemployed and seeking work | 15% | 10% | 11% | 13% | 5% | 15% | 15% | 12% | 822 | 10% |
Higher / further education | 16% | 24% | 21% | 16% | 17% | 36% | 8% | 21% | 835 | 21% |
Permanently sick or disabled | 16% | 20% | 16% | 12% | 18% | 11% | 7% | 15% | 941 | 10% |
by socio-economic classification: |
Higher managerial & prof. occs | 6% | 5% | 3% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 1,691 | 5% |
Lower managerial and prof. occs | 7% | 5% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 4,539 | 7% |
Intermediate occupations | 6% | 11% | 12% | 9% | 12% | 3% | 3% | 9% | 2,109 | 12% |
Small employers & sole traders | 1% | 2% | 0% | 4% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 601 | 3% |
Lower supervisory & tech. occs | 6% | 9% | 11% | 9% | 4% | 3% | 7% | 7% | 1,738 | 9% |
Semi-routine occupations | 7% | 14% | 12% | 13% | 13% | 19% | 7% | 12% | 2,452 | 14% |
Routine occupations | 12% | 9% | 10% | 8% | 11% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 2,180 | 11% |
by annual net household income |
up to £ 10,000 | 21% | 21% | 19% | 18% | 22% | 21% | 8% | 19% | 5,651 | 14% |
over £ 10,000, up to £ 15,000 | 12% | 13% | 17% | 11% | 21% | 21% | 6% | 14% | 5,018 | 13% |
over £ 15,000, up to £ 20,000 | 10% | 10% | 13% | 16% | 7% | 9% | 3% | 10% | 4,106 | 10% |
over £ 20,000, up to £ 25,000 | 6% | 10% | 7% | 6% | 12% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 3,330 | 9% |
over £ 25,000, up to £ 30,000 | 6% | 5% | 7% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 2,763 | 6% |
over £ 30,000, up to £ 40,000 | 6% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 3,282 | 7% |
over £ 40,000 | 4% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2,111 | 6% |
by type of area |
Large urban areas | 17% | 17% | 17% | 15% | 17% | 15% | 7% | 15% | 9,200 | 15% |
Other urban areas | 8% | 10% | 8% | 7% | 11% | 4% | 4% | 8% | 7,866 | 9% |
"Accessible" small towns | 5% | 6% | 5% | 8% | 8% | 7% | 1% | 6% | 2,763 | 7% |
"Remote" small towns | 0% | 1% | 4% | 8% | 2% | 12% | 1% | 4% | 1,292 | 3% |
"Accessible" rural areas | 3% | 4% | 6% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3,425 | 5% |
"Remote" rural areas | 5% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 3% | 2,244 | 4% |
sample size (journeys)2 | 4,857 | 4,741 | 4,178 | 3,404 | 3,443 | 2,059 | 4,108 | 26,790 | | |
all adults in each year |
1999 | 11.0% | 9.0% | 9.9% | 11.4% | 10.0% | 9.5% | 3.4% | 9.3% | 28,396 | 10.5% |
2000 | 10.6% | 11.0% | 11.1% | 9.9% | 9.2% | 11.4% | 3.9% | 9.7% | 28,649 | 10.7% |
2001 | 10.9% | 10.6% | 11.1% | 12.0% | 10.5% | 8.7% | 3.2% | 9.8% | 28,519 | 10.6% |
2002 | 9.3% | 11.5% | 12.2% | 11.8% | 12.5% | 10.4% | 4.4% | 10.5% | 26,944 | 11.0% |
2003 | 10.0% | 10.7% | 10.6% | 9.4% | 11.6% | 9.6% | 4.6% | 9.7% | 26,790 | 10.2% |
1. There are also small numbers described as "at school", "on Government work or training scheme", "unable to work due to short-term ill-health" and "other".
2. As in other tables, these are the sample sizes before reweighting. The Travel Diary reweighting adjusts for the uneven spread of interviews across the days of the week
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