Statistical Bulletin Transport Series - Trn/2005/1: Bus and Coach Statistics: 2003-04
Table 19 Employed 1 adults (16+) not working from home, who usually travel to work by car/van - could they use public transport, and reasons why they do not or cannot 2
| April to December 2003 3 | January 2002 to December 2003 All reasons |
Frequency of use of local bus service |
All reasons | Main reason only | At least once a week | Less than once a week | Not used in past month |
column percentages |
by whether they could use public transport: |
Could use public transport | 44 | | | | |
Could not use public transport | 55 | | | | |
All (including "don't knows") | 100 | | | | |
sample size (=100%) n = | 3,144 | | | | |
if they could use public transport, reasons why they do not #*: |
Takes too long | 59 | 28 | 41 | 53 | 47 |
Inconvenient | 40 | 22 | 48 | 46 | 49 |
No direct route | 31 | 11 | 21 | 30 | 27 |
Use own car | 20 | 12 | 17 | 23 | 30 |
Need a car for / at work | 14 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 |
Work unsocial / unusual hours | 10 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
Cost | 10 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 8 |
Lack of service | 7 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Too infrequent | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
Public transport unreliable | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Too much to carry / awkward | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Dislike waiting about | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Long walk to bus stop | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
All for whom a reason is available | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
sample size (=100%) n = | 1,320 | 1,320 | 489 | 508 | 2,625 |
if they could NOT use public transport, reasons why they cannot #*4: |
No direct route | 38 | | 34 | 36 | 37 |
Lack of service | 27 | | 26 | 26 | 31 |
Need a car for / at work | 23 | | 19 | 23 | 23 |
Work unsocial / unusual hours | 22 | | 29 | 20 | 20 |
Takes too long | 19 | | 18 | 18 | 16 |
Inconvenient | 16 | | 24 | 19 | 23 |
Use own car | 10 | | 8 | 12 | 13 |
Too infrequent | 6 | | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Too much to carry,awkward | 6 | | 6 | 6 | 5 |
Public transport unreliable | 3 | | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Cost | 3 | | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Long walk to bus stop | 2 | | 2 | 1 | 2 |
All for whom a reason is available | 100 | | 100 | 100 | 100 |
sample size (=100%) n = | 1,785 | | 226 | 331 | 3,876 |
# The percentages may total more than 100, because respondents can give more than one reason
* There are also some very small percentages for other reasons e.g. "health reasons", "difficult access on/off steps", etc.
1. Those whose current situation was described as "self-employed", "employed full-time" or "employed part-time"
2. With effect from April 2003, those who answer "inconvenient" or "use my own car" are asked why, and their follow-up answers are recorded as well as their original ones.
Hence the figures are on a different basis from those for previous years
3. Only from April 2003 have interviewers asked respondents, who give more than one reason for not using public transport, to identify the main reason.
4 Due to a problem with the computer script for the questionnaire, the main reason was not identified in these cases