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8 Travel to school - pupils in full-time education at school(Table 22)
8.1 In cases where the household includes one or more pupils in full-time education at school, the interviewer asks about the usual method of travel to school of one of them (who is randomly-chosen from among all the pupils in the household).
8.2 Table 22 shows that, in 2003/2004, walking was reported to be the usual method of travel to school for 52% of pupils in full-time education at school, about 23% were said to go by bus, and 22% went by car or van. Only 1% cycled to school. Other modes of transport, such as trains and taxis, were the usual method of travel for only 3% of pupils.
8.3 There were big differences between urban areas and rural areas. In 2003/2004, about three-fifths of pupils in towns and cities walked to school, compared with around 30% of pupils in rural areas. The percentage who went by bus was about 16-21% for those in towns and urban areas and 43-51% in rural areas. The percentage who travelled by car or van did not vary much with the type of area, being between 16% and 23% for all types of area.
8.4 Some of the percentages for different Council areas vary greatly, but it must be remembered that they are all based on samples of between about 100 and 600. Therefore, they could be subject to sampling errors of several percentage points, which could exaggerate the extent of differences between Council areas. The percentage who walked to school ranged from 18% for Eilean Siar to 67% for Midlothian. The "bus" percentage ranged from 8% in Dundee to 62% for Eilean Siar, and the percentage who were taken to school by car or van varied from 15% in Moray and Midlothian to 31% in Inverclyde.
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