Personal and environmental correlates of active travel and physical activity in a deprived urban population

Table 2 Socioeconomic characteristics of study participants

Category	Frequency (%)
Working situation
Employed	616 (47.2)
Retired	333 (25.5)
Other*	357 (27.3)
Missing	16
Financial situation
Find it a strain to get by from week to week	233 (17.9)
Have to be careful about money	680 (52.2)
Able to manage without much difficulty	299 (23.0)
Quite comfortably off	90 (6.9)
Missing	20
Housing tenure
Owner-occupied	678 (51.6)
Social rented	543 (41.3)
Other^†	93 (7.1)
Missing	8
Cars or vans available to household
None	629 (48.4)
One	525 (40.4)
Two or more	146 (11.2)
Missing	22

n = 1322. * On a government training scheme, full-time student, unemployed, disabled, invalid or permanently sick, or caring for home and family or dependants. ^† Rented in the private sector, part-owned and part-rented, or other form of tenure.

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