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Table 4 Comparison of selected socio-demographic characteristics of IBICCS study participants with comparison datasets to assess sample representativeness (n weighted = 22,164).

From: Evaluating the impact of implementing public bicycle share programs on cycling: the International Bikeshare Impacts on Cycling and Collisions Study (IBICCS)

  

Newly Implemented PBSP city

Existing PBSP city

No PBSP city

  

Chicago

New York

Boston

Montreal

Toronto

Detroit

Philadelphia

Vancouver

  

IBICCS

ACSa

IBICCS

ACS

IBICCS

ACS

IBICCS

censusb

IBICCS

census

IBICCS

ACS

IBICCS

ACS

IBICCS

census

# of census tracts in sampled area

345

335

145

333

91

73

107

59

  

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

Education

High school education or less

8.0

32.1

7.8

25.5

6.6

27.4

15.6

36.2

11.6

32.8

15.5

54.4

16.0

41.2

14.1

29.9

College or University

92.0

67.9

92.2

74.5

93.4

72.6

84.4

63.8

88.4

67.2

84.5

45.6

84.0

58.8

85.9

70.1

Employment

Employed

77.8

65.3

73.3

64.6

69.6

62.2

62.8

58.1

69.9

65.0

63.7

38.8

66.1

54.1

70.1

67.7

Unemployed

4.4

6.5

4.6

5.4

3.2

5.4

5.1

6.4

3.6

5.5

3.8

12.6

4.6

6.7

2.7

4.9

Not in labor force

17.8

28.3

22.1

30.0

27.2

32.4

32.2

35.4

26.5

29.5

32.5

48.5

29.3

39.3

27.2

27.5

Household Income

< 50 k

31.8

44.4

29.5

37.1

35.7

44.0

45.5

60.0

31.5

45.8

39.8

78.4

42.7

55.0

31.1

48.3

> = 50 k

68.2

55.6

70.5

62.9

64.3

56.0

54.5

40.0

68.4

54.2

60.2

21.6

57.3

45.0

68.8

51.7

Ethnicity

White

71.8

44.5

68.0

53.1

75.6

58.1

84.7

70.4

70.9

64.3

78.5

15.1

69.2

49.0

58.4

64.4

Black

11.1

15.6

8.7

14.6

4.7

13.6

2.4

6.9

2.3

5.4

11.6

67.9

15.3

28.9

0.8

1.2

Hispanic/Latino

6.8

29.0

7.7

17.0

3.7

12.1

1.9

4.4

1.6

2.4

1.5

12.8

4.2

8.2

1.2

1.9

Asian

6.9

8.6

11.7

12.5

11.6

12.1

4.4

11.5

14.5

24.2

3.7

1.9

7.8

10.9

31.0

30.2

Mixed/Other

1.9

2.3

2.3

2.8

2.5

4.1

4.5

5.9

7.5

3.2

3.1

2.2

2.4

3.0

5.5

2.0

Refused

1.4

1.7

1.8

2.0

3.3

1.5

1.2

3.2

  1. aACS = American Community Survey; Source: 2010–2014 American Community Survey 5-year estimates [9]
  2. bSource: 2011 National Household survey [10]
  3. cRefused responses for Income were removed from the IBICCS study sample to allow for comparisons with American Community Survey data and the National Household Survey