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Australian Cycling Participation 2011
  • Publication no: AP-C91-11
  • ISBN: 978-1-921709-93-7
  • Published: 31 August 2011

The National Cycling Strategy 2011-2016 set out the objective to double participation in cycling by Australians between 2011 and 2016. In order to establish a baseline against which to measure performance towards this target the Australian Bicycle Council commissioned Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) to design and implement a survey to obtain baseline data on cycling participation in Australia. Australian Cycling Participation 2011 is a report of the results of the first survey.

  • Table of Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Summary
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1. Purpose
    • 1.2. Definitions
    • 1.3. Report structure
  • 2. Survey design
    • 2.1. Overview
    • 2.2. Survey method
      • 2.2.1. NSW metropolitan area
    • 2.3. Sampling frame
    • 2.4. Sampling unit
    • 2.5. Sample selection
    • 2.6. Geography
    • 2.7. Qualifiers
    • 2.8. Survey instrument
    • 2.9. Definitions
    • 2.10. Expansion and weighting
  • 3. Descriptive statistics
    • 3.1. Response rate
    • 3.2. Data cleaning
    • 3.3. Summary statistics
    • 3.4. Demographics
      • 3.4.1. Household characteristics
      • 3.4.2. Person characteristics
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1. Cycling participation
    • 4.2. Cycling travel
      • 4.2.1. Bicycle ownership
    • 4.3. State-by-state results
      • 4.3.1. Australian Capital Territory
      • 4.3.2. New South Wales
      • 4.3.3. Northern Territory
      • 4.3.4. Queensland
      • 4.3.5. South Australia
      • 4.3.6. Tasmania
      • 4.3.7. Victoria
      • 4.3.8. Western Australia
  • 5. FURTHER ANALYSIS
  • 6. REFERENCES
  • APPENDIX A: SURVEY SCRIPT
  • APPENDIX B: GEOGRAPHY DEFINITIONS
  • APPENDIX C: ERASS COMPARISON
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