The Travel to and from School by Pupils in Northern Ireland 2023/24 report is published
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The Travel to and from School by Pupils in Northern Ireland 2023/24 report has been published today.
This report, produced by the Analysis, Statistics and Research Branch (ASRB) of the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), presents findings from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey (CHS).
The publication is available on the Department for Infrastructure website.
Key points:
Primary School
- For main mode of travel, 61% of pupils were driven to/from school by car and 26% usually walked. A further 10% took a bus and 1% cycled to and/or from school.
- Of those who walked to school, 94% of primary school pupils walked all of the way to/from school. Thirty-five percent spent 10 minutes or less walking to and from school and 52% spent 11-20 minutes.
- Fifty-one percent of primary school pupils live a mile or less from school and of these, 48% were driven to school by car and 46% walked to school.
Post Primary School
- Amongst post-primary school pupils, 41% travelled to/from school by bus as their main mode of travel while 42% travelled to/from school by car. A further 15% pupils walked to/from school.
- Of those who walked to school, 81% of post primary school pupils walked all of the way to/from school. Twenty-four percent of post-primary school pupils spent 10 minutes or less walking to and from school, 50% spent 11-20 minutes and 16% spent 21-30 minutes.
- For post-primary school pupils, 51% lived 4 or more miles from their school. Only 19% of post primary school pupils lived less than 1 mile from their school and of those 56% walked to school.
Notes to editors:
- The information presented in this publication derives from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey (CHS) in relation to attitudes towards electric vehicles. The CHS is considered to be a representative sample of the population at household level.
- A total of 2,439 adults aged 16 and over were surveyed in 2023-24.
- The report contains information from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey (CHS) on the proportion of respondents with a driving licence and access to a car/van, the likelihood of purchasing an electric vehicle, if so, when they would be likely to purchase and the factors that would encourage and discourage purchase of an electric vehicle.
- The information presented in this publication may be used by the Department to inform and understand the story behind current trends and to assist in any future policy discussion and development.
- Note: Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NISRA suspended all face-to-face household interviews in March 2020. In the reporting periods, April 2020 - March 2021 and April 2021 - March 2022, all interviews carried out on the Continuous Household Survey (CHS) were conducted by telephone. For this reporting year, April 2023 - March 2024, face to face interviewing was the preferred method of data collecting, however telephone interviewing was an option, thus making the survey dual-modality. There are a number of factors which users should take into consideration when interpreting the 2020-21 results and care should be taken when comparing these to previously published findings from the survey.
- These statistics are accredited official statistics. Accredited Official Statistics are official statistics that have been independently reviewed by Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and confirmed to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
- For more information relating to this publication, including additional analysis, breakdowns of data, or alternative formats please contact: Analysis, Statistics and Research Branch,1st Floor, James House, Gasworks Site, 2-4 Cromac Avenue, Belfast, BT7 2JA. Telephone: (028) 9054 0390 (Text relay prefix 18001). E-mail: asrb@nisra.gov.uk. Website: www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/topics/dfi-statistics-and-research. ASRB advise customers to make contact through email or by telephone.
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