Method of travel to place of work or study of people in a household

A count of the number of people working or studying in a household and their method of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of their usual journey to work or place of study.

Total number of categories 18

Individual question 43: How do you usually travel to your main job or course of study (including school)?

• Driving a car or van
• Passenger in a car or van
• Taxi or private hire
• Motorcycle, scooter or moped
• On foot
• Bicycle
• Bus, minibus or coach
• Train
• Underground, subway or tram
• Other

Information on method of travel to work/study helps to identify commuter patterns and routes and provide a reliable indicator for the demands placed on public and private transport.

No equivalent variable has been created for the 2021 census in England & Wales.

This variable is directly comparable to the version created for Scotland's census 2011 as the question has not changed.

This variable provides a count of the number of people working or studying in a household with the method of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of their usual journey to work or place of study.

Total number of categories 18

ACTLW (Derived variable)

SIZHUK11 (Derived variable)

STUDENT (Primary variable)

TERMIND (Primary variable)
TRANSPORTPS11 (Primary variable)

WKPLIND (Primary variable)