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Table 12: Trips per person per year by purpose
Scottish residents	Trips
Scottish residents	1985/1986	1989/1991	1992/1994	1995/1997	1998/2000	2002/2003	2004/2005	2006/2007	2008/2009	2009/2010
Commuting	180	174	162	177	178	174	170	161	164	165
Business	27	38	31	39	33	28	35	31	31	31
Education	102	72	69	72	71	82	64	59	54	52
Escort education	16	29	21	36	26	31	29	28	29	23
Shopping	189	237	239	232	250	207	207	203	199	200
Other escort	72	94	77	89	81	98	104	90	94	91
Other personal business	87	110	105	102	115	107	102	99	100	97
Visiting friends	157	196	184	176	178	163	154	151	149	148
Visting friends at home	123	156	151	139	136	119	118	111	106	107
Visiting friends elsewhere	35	40	33	37	42	44	36	40	43	41
Sport / entertainment	62	68	72	61	78	72	74	62	65	70
Holiday / day trip	17	27	31	22	28	29	31	35	41	35
Other (including "just walk")	63	66	50	50	65	44	44	50	50	46
All purposes	972	1,112	1,040	1,054	1,102	1,035	1,014	969	978	957
Sample size (number of people)	2,560	2,480	2,092	2,024	1,926	3,396	3,766	3,618	3,270	3,214

NB: There is an apparent under recording of short walks in 2002-03 and short trips in 2007-08 compared to other years. See notes.
Source: National Travel Survey

	Percentage of trips
	1985/1986	1989/1991	1992/1994	1995/1997	1998/2000	2002/2003	2004/2005	2006/2007	2008/2009	2009/2010
Commuting	18.5	15.7	15.6	16.8	16.1	16.8	16.7	16.6	16.8	17.2
Business	2.8	3.5	3.0	3.7	3.0	2.7	3.4	3.2	3.2	3.2
Education	10.4	6.4	6.6	6.8	6.4	7.9	6.3	6.1	5.6	5.4
Escort education	1.7	2.6	2.0	3.4	2.3	3.0	2.9	2.9	3.0	2.4
Shopping	19.5	21.3	23.0	22.0	22.7	20.0	20.4	20.9	20.3	20.9
Other escort	7.4	8.5	7.4	8.4	7.3	9.5	10.3	9.3	9.6	9.5
Other personal business	8.9	9.9	10.1	9.6	10.4	10.3	10.1	10.3	10.2	10.2
Visiting friends	16.2	17.6	17.7	16.7	16.2	15.8	15.2	15.6	15.3	15.5
Visting friends at home	12.6	14.0	14.5	13.2	12.4	11.5	11.7	11.4	10.8	11.1
Visiting friends elsewhere	3.6	3.6	3.2	3.5	3.8	4.2	3.6	4.2	4.4	4.3
Sport / entertainment	6.4	6.1	6.9	5.8	7.1	6.9	7.3	6.4	6.7	7.3
Holiday / day trip	1.7	2.5	2.9	2.1	2.5	2.8	3.0	3.6	4.2	3.6
Other (including "just walk")	6.5	6.0	4.9	4.7	5.9	4.2	4.3	5.2	5.2	4.8
All purposes	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Sample size (number of people)	2,560	2,480	2,092	2,024	1,926	3,396	3,766	3,618	3,270	3,214

NB: There is an apparent under recording of short walks in 2002-03 and short trips in 2007-08 compared to other years. See notes.
Source: National Travel Survey

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007^1,2	2008	2009	2010
	*column percentages*
Commuting	23.3	23.5	24.3	24.9	24.5	26.8	25.6	23.6	24.2	23.8	26.5
Business	4.5	4.0	4.0	3.7	3.8	4.3	4.0	1.5	1.2	1.2	0.9
Education	3.1	2.7	3.3	3.1	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.1	3.7	3.5
Shopping	22.0	23.5	22.9	23.2	22.9	21.2	21.3	23.4	22.8	23.1	23.3
Visit hospital or other health	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.8	2.3	2.6	2.6	2.4	2.5	2.5
Other personal business	6.4	6.3	5.7	6.3	6.7	6.9	7.2	6.9	6.2	6.9	6.4
Visiting friends or relatives	12.3	11.4	11.6	11.2	10.6	10.4	11.1	10.9	12.0	11.2	10.8
Eating/drinking	3.3	3.7	3.7	3.5	3.8	3.3	2.9	4.8	4.3	4.1	3.7
Sport/entertainment	5.8	6.0	6.0	5.9	6.3	6.3	6.4	7.1	7.3	7.9	6.8
Holiday/day trip	4.2	4.5	3.9	4.4	4.6	3.4	3.9	1.7	2.0	2.3	1.9
Other journey	4.8	4.2	4.2	3.3	2.9	3.1	3.6	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.4
Escort	8.0	7.8	8.0	8.0	8.0	8.6	8.2	8.0	7.5	6.7	7.3
Go home²	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2.6	3.2	3.2	2.7
Just go for a walk²	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3.6	3.7	2.9	3.2
Sample Size (=100%)	28,558	28,519	26,944	26,790	27,122	24,658	25,215	20,519	20,449	18,679	16,296

Source: Scottish Household Survey, Published in Scottish Household Survey: Travel Diary 2009/2010, Table 3
1 Prior to 2007 only journeys over 1/4 mile or 5 minutes on foot were recorded. Since 2007 all journeys are recorded.
This creates a discontinuity in the time series between 2006 and 2007.
2 From 2007 onwards two new categories, 'Go home' and 'Just go for a walk', have been added.
See the background note for more detail.