Correlates of walking and cycling for transport and recreation: factor structure, reliability and behavioural associations of the perceptions of the environment in the neighbourhood scale (PENS)

Table 2 Sample characteristics

	iConnect baseline survey				Reliability study
Characteristic	Respondents included in factor analysis		Respondents included in environmental correlates analyses
	n = 3494		n = 2937		n = 166
	%	n^a	%	n	%	n^a
Sex
Male	45.1	1560	45.6	1338	46.7	77
Age (years)
<30	16.3	554	18.0	530	11.7	19
30-44	20.5	699	22.3	656	24.5	40
45-64	38.9	1324	39.5	1161	36.2	59
≥65	24.3	827	20.1	590	27.6	45
Ethnicity
White	94.7	3220	95.2	2796	90.7	147
Other	5.3	179	4.8	141	9.3	15
Education
Degree	40.7	1371	42.9	1259	31.7	51
GCE ‘A’ Level	17.8	599	18.9	556	17.4	28
GCSE Grades A to C	18.7	631	18.4	540	24.2	39
No formal qualification	22.8	766	19.8	582	26.7	43
Housing tenure
Owned	74.7	2555	75.5	2218	81.1	133
Rented from private landlord	14.9	508	15.9	468	6.1	10
Rented from local authority	7.6	260	6.0	177	11.6	19
Other	2.8	97	2.5	74	1.2	2
Household cars
0	13.4	457	12.2	359	12.3	20
1	41.1	1406	39.5	1159	43.8	71
2 or more	45.6	1559	48.3	1419	43.8	71
Household bicycles
0	42.3	1382	40.9	1201	34.3	57
1 more	57.7	1888	59.1	1736	65.7	109
Residential location
Urban	95.4	3333	95.7	2812	n/a	n/a
Rural	4.6	161	4.3	125	n/a	n/a
Site
Cardiff	32.0	1118	31.8	934	n/a	n/a
Kenilworth	32.0	1119	32.5	955	n/a	n/a
Southampton	36.0	1257	35.9	1048	n/a	n/a

^aNumbers do not sum up to a total due to missing responses; n/a: not applicable.

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