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Table 16: [Travel to school reasons] Reasons for transport choice to children's full time education establishment, 2012-2017

	Usual method of travel to school
	Walking	Car or van	School bus	Service bus
				cell percentages
Close / Nearby / Not far away	88.6	6.6	5.1	8.0
Most convenient	8.7	39.0	42.3	39.2
Travel with friends	4.0	1.2	4.2	4.3
Safest method	1.1	15.6	15.6	7.7
Quickest method	2.8	15.2	6.5	13.3
Only method available	1.8	11.1	19.8	21.4
Too far to walk	0.0	15.3	20.6	22.8
No public transport	0.5	3.5	2.9	0.4
Publ transp unsuitable (eg too infreq.)	0.2	3.2	2.3	0.2
Good exercise / fresh air	6.2	0.0	0.0	0.6
No car / transport	0.6	0.0	0.5	2.0
Cheapest method	0.4	0.8	1.3	1.2
It is free	0.6	0.2	16.8	1.5
On way to work	0.1	8.1	0.2	0.1
Too young to travel any other way	0.1	6.4	1.6	0.5
Relative meets child	0.0	0.7	0.2	0.0
Other reason(s)	0.4	2.5	1.3	1.0
Sample size (=100%)	5,720	2,820	1,750	680

*Percentages may total to more than 100% as respondents can give multiple answers. Table only includes those who have given a reason (question asked only of a sub-sample).