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2.1 In 1999, five-sixths of households said that they were within 6 minutes walk of a bus stop (please see paragraph 3.1.1). However, roughly one in eight "country dweller" households said that they had no bus service (paragraph 3.1.2). About a fifth of householders did not know the frequency of their nearest bus service (paragraph 3.2.1).
2.2 Almost two-thirds of households had one or more motor vehicles available for private use (paragraph 4.1). 94% of "professional" households had one or more cars, compared with only 39% of "unskilled" households (paragraph 4.2.1).
2.3 About a third of households had one or more bicycles that adults could use. The percentage with bicycles ranged from 5% of single pensioner households to 57% of large family households (paragraph 4.3.1).
2.4 In 1999, nearly two-thirds of people aged 17 or over were said to have a full driving licence (paragraph 5.2.1): 77% of men, but only 53% of women (paragraph 5.2.2). Just over two-fifths of people in households with an annual net income of up to £10,000 held a driving licence, compared with around nine out of ten of those in households with a net income of over £30,000 per year (paragraph 5.2.5).
2.5 Over half of all men were said to drive every day, compared with about a third of women. About three-fifths of people aged between 30 and 49 drove every day (paragraph 5.3.2). Over three-quarters of the self-employed drove every day, compared with about a sixth of people who were permanently sick or disabled (paragraph 5.3.3).
2.6 Two-fifths of adults said that they had walked for pleasure or to keep fit in the seven days before the interview: 44% of men and 37% of women. The percentage for men was highest for those aged 65-69 (paragraph 7.2.2). However, only 4% of adults said that they had cycled for pleasure or to keep fit (paragraph 7.3.2).
2.7 About one employed adult in thirteen worked at or from home. Almost 45% of self-employed people did so (paragraph 8.2).
2.8 Two-thirds of commuters said that they usually travelled to work by car or van (55% as the driver, 12% as a passenger), 14% walked, 12% went by bus, 3% used a train and 2% cycled. 61% of men drove to their place of work compared with 49% of women; proportionately more women walked or travelled by bus (paragraph 8.3.1). 45% of those who travelled by car or van said that they could use public transport (paragraph 9.3).
2.9 In 1999, walking was reported to be the usual method of travel to school for 55% of pupils, 23% went by bus, 18% travelled in a car or van, and only 1% cycled (paragraph 11.2.1). A car was used by about a quarter of primary school pupils but only around one in eight secondary school pupils (paragraph 11.2.2). About a third of pupils from "professional" households went by car, compared with around a tenth of those from "unskilled" backgrounds (paragraph 11.2.4).
2.10 One in eight adults said that they had a long-standing limiting illness, health problem or disability and had difficulty with one or more of a number of transport-related activities, such as walking for at least 10 minutes or using a bus (paragraph 12.2). The proportion having such difficulties increased with age, to about a fifth of 60-69 year olds, a quarter of 70-79 year olds and two-fifths of those aged 80 or over (paragraph 12.4).
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