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Table 4 Neighbourhood and activity space geometry and urban form comparison (mean ± SD)

From: A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study

 

VERITAS perceived neighbourhood

NZ meshblock

1mile Euclidian buffer

1 km network buffer

Activity space (convex hull)

Area (km2)

3.54 ± 2.64

0.12 ± 0.16**

8.14 ± 0

1.03 ± 0.33**

19.67 ± 24.83

Perimeter (km)

7.38 ± 3.38

1.57 ± 0.90**

10.11 ± 0

5.98 ± 1.45**

19.56 ± 10.89

Home to farthest boundary edge (km)

2.44 ± 1.38

0.53 ± 0.37**

1.61 ± 0

0.9 ± 0.09**

6.77 ± 4.3

Home to closest boundary edge (km)

0.54 ± 0.39

0.05 ± 0.04**

1.61 ± 0

0.18 ± 0.11**

0.36 ± 0.31

Farthest to closest edge ratio

10.88 ± 13.33

14.44 ± 12.55

1 ± 0**

13.48 ± 27.24

26.06 ± 24.53

Neighbourhood circularity

0.69 ± 0.15

0.53 ± 0.15**

1 ± 0**

0 ± 0**

0 ± 0

Perceived neighbourhood overlap (% area)a

-

85.12 ± 27.39

34.64 ± 21.73

79.43 ± 27.11

25.16 ± 23.54

Land Use Mix (entropy score)

0.38 ± 0.21

0.22 ± 0.16*

0.47 ± 0.15*

0.29 ± 0.12**

0.60 ± 0.16

Residential Density (dwellings/km2)

807.83 ± 233.75

894.17 ± 321.34**

627.34 ± 180.73**

854.29 ± 199.47

674.31 ± 189.0

Connectivity (intersections/km2)

45.35 ± 17.93

23.71 ± 23.7**

59.89 ± 21.18**

40.99 ± 7.7

52.01 ± 11.41

  1. Note: *Significantly different from VERITAS perceived neighbourhood (p < .05).
  2. **Significantly different from VERITAS perceived neighbourhood (p < .01).
  3. aCalculated as the percentage of each neighbourhood’s area that fell inside the perceived neighbourhood boundary.