Walking to school: frequency and predictors among primary school children in Dunedin, New Zealand. Yelavich, S., Towns, C., Burt, R., Chow, K., Donohue, R., Sani, H., S., H., Taylor, K., Gray, A., Eberhart-Phillips, J., Sani, H., S., H., & Reeder, A., I. The New Zealand medical journal, 121(1271):51-8, 4, 2008. ![Walking to school: frequency and predictors among primary school children in Dunedin, New Zealand. [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Website abstract bibtex AIM To estimate the frequency of walking to school among primary school children and examine associated factors. METHOD In-class survey of Years 1-6 children attending Dunedin primary schools, November 2004, and a take home, written questionnaire for parents and caregivers. RESULTS On study day, 34.5% of children walked to school and 36.8% intended to walk home. Overall, 1157 completed caregiver questionnaires were returned (68%) indicating that 47.5% of children walked to or from school less than three times per week. The strongest predictor of walking was proximity to school (<1 km OR 29.3, 1-2 km OR 7.7, 2-3 km OR 3.0, >3 km OR 1.00). Other predictors were not having a car in the household (OR 10.9), attending a (low socioeconomic) decile 2 to 4 school (2.35), having three or more adults in the household (1.85), being in a higher school year (1.72), having non-New Zealand European ethnicity (>1.41), having a parent who had walked to school (1.35), and being male (1.33). CONCLUSIONS This study established a baseline for the percentage of Dunedin primary school children walking to school. Key potentially modifiable predictors of walking were proximity to school and not having a car in the household. These findings have implications for health, transport and educational policies.
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